Chapter 70

• SELENE
• The chains pulled and I rose slowly. The pain in my shoulders was a distant thing now. He watched me with those cold eyes, the ones I had come to deeply hate. This was worse than betrayal. It was an erasure.
• Everywhere was silent, a thick and deafening quiet. My own anger burned inside my chest, a heartbreaking tug on every part of me, so strong I could barely breathe. I was the one being sent away. The guilty one.