Ravyn swallowed hard, the tight feeling in his throat refusing to go away no matter how many times he tried to convince himself that everything was still under control.
The woman they were talking about was no longer the same Seraphine he used to know, and that truth pressed against his thoughts in a way he could not easily ignore.
The girl who once looked at him with shining eyes and shy devotion, the one who confessed her love for him nearly ten years ago with that soft hopeful smile, no longer existed in the world he was living in now.
That version of Seraphine had disappeared somewhere along the way.
The woman who stood in her place today was nothing like the Luna he once manipulated with a few gentle words and empty promises. The power she now held had grown so quickly that it almost felt unreal, and even though Ravyn hated admitting it, the truth remained unavoidable.
