Chapter 140

Zevara’s POV

It’s been two weeks since I ripped Ashen apart, and even though I had waited for Alpha Rowan’s rage—to avenge his son—it never came. Talon told me that even Nina had disappeared into thin air and couldn’t be found, despite the bounty he placed on her. Her pictures were everywhere, plastered all over the media.

Everyone had heard about the kidnapping and how Ashen had intended to kill me, yet they still blamed me for defending myself against him. Many believed I wasn’t the one who killed him. They thought Talon did. Since then, they tagged me as a curse and even went as far as saying that I must have cast a spell on Talon, binding him to do my bidding no matter what.

It’s been two weeks since I discovered that Magnus never cared about me the way I thought he did. Even so, I had been straining my neck, wishing and hoping that one day he’d burst into the lecture hall or through my dorm doors to ask after me—or at least about my well-being—but he ne