Chapter 28

Selene's POV

As I lay on my bed in silence with just the tick-tock of the clock echoing in my head, I felt empty. My heart appeared to be missing a piece that could complete it. Sadness clouded every part of me, growing deeper and heavier for my heart to carry.

My past came flashing through my mind in cracks like a shattered mirror. I could see the good years when everything was right and good. All my years in school as a student, everyone naturally loved and treated me well.

I was beginning to hear music and drums from the outside, which meant the party had already started since it was already a few minutes past ten and it should start by 10. No one had come here to invite me or tell me anything about the party. I didn't expect it, though. Who would want to see the face of a forbidden girl, hated by everyone for something that wasn't her fault?

It still hurts me that I killed my best friend, and every time I get a glimpse of her parents on their random visits to the Alpha, the pain