KING MAGNUS'S POV
The sight of Selene standing before me felt like a blow to the chest. I couldn't speak for a moment, my mind racing as a torrent of emotions surged through me—shock, confusion, and disbelief. Ten years. It had been ten years since I buried my first mate, Selene Blackwood, after she was murdered by someone I had trusted with my life.
I thought she was gone forever. And yet, here she was, alive and standing in front of me and Aria.
Aria.
I turned to her, my heart clenching at the look on her face. Shock and betrayal filled her wide, tear-brimmed eyes, her lips pressed together as though she were holding back the torrent of emotions threatening to spill out.
This wasn't what I wanted. I had moved on, or so I thought. But now that Selene was here, why did everything feel so tangled, so wrong?
