SERAPHINA’S POV
I found my car parked in Kieran's driveway, probably retrieved from the Lockwood Estate after I abandoned it.
I had no idea how I drove home without crashing it.
My foot slammed the accelerator as I sped through the empty streets, awash with pre-dawn light.
With every mile, the bond tugged at me like a thread stretching thin, and I just kept chanting internally: Don’t look back. Just get home.
By the time I pulled into my driveway, the sky had warmed to pale gold.
I killed the engine and sat there for a long moment, forehead resting against the steering wheel as the gravity of everything that had happened pressed onto me.
The library. My mother's words. The Moon Goddess. Alina. Kieran.
Mate.
It was hard to believe that all this had happened in the span of less than twenty-four hours. That I had a life before all this. That I was—
Realization struck like a bolt of lightning, sending a cold rush through me as dread settled heavily in my stomach.
