Chapter 152: Chapter 152: Why is he back?
Selene’s POV~
The crowd was loud at first with countless questions arising, but slowly it began to thin. People drifted away one by one, still murmuring, still afraid of the unknown danger. Soon the chaos was nothing but a faint echo in the ground.
But I stood there.
I was not looking at Navien’s broken body anymore. I was not even looking at Meriya’s pitiful act. My eyes were stuck on him.
Lucian.
I had heard the stories. That he left the pack half a year ago. That he disappeared without a trace. And yet... here he was.
This news had actually given me relief, that I didn’t have to face him. I was relieved that he was not in the pack and that I wouldn’t have to cross paths with him.
But now he was here, standing in front of me. Why did he decide to come back? Couldn’t he just wait a few more days until I left this pack forever? It would have been good if he wasn’t here.
I could not understand. But the truth was, it was not the timing that shook me most. It was him.
Because if there was anyone in this world who had ever touched me most deeply, it was him.
Lucian.
dreams. His voice. His presence in my heart. Whatever it was, it shaped me more than I wanted to admit. And now he was here again, standing so close yet so far, and I did not even know how to face
myself for it. Tears pushed up without my permission. Why? Why was
the man whom I had once seen my future with, and now he was one of the
the tears came anyway. My chest ached like I was grieving something—but what was it? Something that could
what
crowd, slipping out before anyone could see me. My steps were quick, almost desperate, like
the sky and tilted my head back. The stars were faint above me. I closed my
steady, my eyes calm, like nothing had touched me. I had learned how to do this. How to
heart... my heart
leapt the moment I saw him. Just a glance, just his voice, and it was like my chest could
as a broken smile
the one left behind, the one who had nothing, the one who was
Pathetic. Always pathetic.
my hand against my chest, as
the past, Selene," I
was only one thing
from these chains, free from this pain, free from the cruel roots this
then... I would
when the time came, I would be free forever. I would not wait a moment before ending this shit and meeting
nothing to offer me aside from
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