Selene…
I really didn't expect her to appear like this. Not in this way and not at this moment.
And yet… if I'm being honest with myself, a part of me had already been bracing for it. Like a quiet dread sitting in the back of my chest, waiting for the day it would finally surface.
When I was younger, back before everything became complicated, you could say I was wild. Reckless, even. Especially with my late husband.
We did it a lot back then. Too much, maybe.
But we were young, and life felt light. We didn't have real worries. There was no responsibilities pressing down on us as well as no futures to fear. I never once thought about consequences. Back then, consequences felt like something that happened to other people.
When I found out I was pregnant, I remember standing there, frozen, not knowing what to do with myself. My thoughts were a mess, spinning in every direction at once.
But he married me.
And for a while… I was happy. Genuinely happy.
Then we had Zeruel.
