Chapter 169

Damian’s POV

Something is wrong with Rain.

I don’t need proof. I can feel it. She smiled the same way, spoke the same way, even brushed her hand over my cheek like nothing had changed. But her eyes… her eyes had turned into something else. There was a stillness there now, a cold sort of distance that didn’t belong to the woman I loved. And no matter how many times I told myself I was overthinking it, my wolf wouldn’t calm down. I have tried to ignore it for days. I have tried to trust her words, her touch.

But instinct doesn’t lie. When she came to my room this evening and kissed my forehead, saying she needed to gather herbs for Harper before sunset, the lie rolled too smoothly off her tongue. Rain never gathers herbs alone. Harper had people for that.

I played along, pretending not to notice the way she avoided l