Olivia's POV
TWO DAYS LATER
It had been two full days since I last saw Kaine.
Not that I cared.
That was what I kept telling myself.
Yet the feeling wouldn't go away.
It sat low in my stomach, heavy and restless, like something unfinished. Like a knot pulled too tight. Ever since I reassigned him to front-door duty, everything felt off. And that annoyed me more than it should have.
I tried to drown myself in work.
Council matters. Pack reports. Meetings I barely listened to. I checked on the boys constantly—Liam most of all—watching him laugh with Leon and Leo, watching him pretend he was okay. I smiled for them. I praised the servants. I acted like a Luna who had everything under control.
But the moment I was alone, the pain and heartbreak pressed me. I cried in my sleep and in my bed, wishing all this was a dream.
