Rhiannon’s POV

I let go of the breath I didn’t know I was holding.

A long silence stretched between the three of us, thick with some emotions I didn’t dare name.

He regretted it? After all this time? After I had spent nights drowning in the echoes of his rejection, after I had given up on the foolish hope that he would ever see me as anything more than a mistake? That saving me in that forest was nothing more but luck?

I glanced away, my heart pounding in a way I hated. But just as I did, my eyes found Azriel. My husband’s face was tight. He has every...