Chapter 130: Chapter 130: Blood of the same blood.
Selene’s POV~
For one long heartbeat, his eyes were locked on mine.
I thought he would keep staring, that he had found me the way I had found him.
But then, suddenly, he looked away.
His gaze turned cold, and he did not look back at me again. It was as if I were no one. As if I wasn’t worth even a second glance.
The weight of his eyes lifted from me, and I felt both relief and a sharp sting deep inside my chest. He had seen me and then chosen to dismiss me.
His face hardened. He’s focused again on the warriors standing in front of him now, not me. His whole stance screamed danger. His eyes narrowed with such a chilly power that even the strongest men in front of him shifted uneasily. He looked ready to tear them apart if they did not obey him.
My body stiffened. I didn’t know why, but my heart beat strangely. A feeling I had never known before rose in me as I stared at him.
He was a man definitely in his early forties, strong and unshaken. His clothes were simple, not fine like nobles wore, but his presence was heavy and commanding, as if his aura alone could command all of them.
He didn’t look very old, but I knew at once he must be past forty. That was the kind of strength that only time could forge.
And then I saw it...what shook me more than anything else.
His hair.
dark ash shining through. So much like mine.
side by side, they might think we were kin. Blood of
wildly, refusing to settle. I was sure I had
was from my father’s
was a clue to my father, the man I had never met and never heard from my mother, the man I
bold. Dangerous. But it would
not breathe. Memories came crashing in, the kind I had fought so hard to bury. The pain, the screams,
of me, carrying a face
not know what to
know what
into my skirt as the weight of the man’s
invisible chains wrapping around everyone’s lungs,
thudded painfully, my mind racing.
presence had been good, it had never felt like this. Not
different. Something else. Something
sound of approaching footsteps broke my thoughts, and I turned just as Aeron stepped into view. His face was dark as a black pot,
to hide the tremor in my hands, and to push every fragile emotion deep where
warriors moved aside instantly, clearing the way
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