~Alora~

"What the hell is going on here?"

I heard the words leave my mouth a second time, louder now, demanding an answer that some part of me desperately didn't want to hear.

Lucian immediately stepped back from Hazel, his hands flying up as if that gesture could somehow erase what I'd just witnessed. Only the moon goddess knows how I'm feeling right now.

"Alora, please," he started, his voice strained and desperate. "What you saw—it's not what it looked like. You have to believe ...