My heart pounded as Selene's anger reverberated through our bond. I could feel her gathering herself, preparing to show me what she'd been hiding all this time. But a small part of me—the part that had been disappointed and hurt by secrets too many times—worried that she might change her mind. That she might decide to wait after all, to keep me in the dark for some "perfect moment" that might never come.

I couldn't let that happen.

'You know what?' I said, deliberately ...