Selene let out a long sigh when she had entered back into the courtyard, wiping away the tears in her eyes as she sat down on an old bench. She tried to process everything that had just happened. It wasn’t like Skye had straight out rejected her, but it definitely felt like it.

“There you are, Selene,” came a familiar voice. Selene froze.

She looked up at her father and felt her stomach turn. “I told you I was going to be out here.”

Phillip ...