Chapter 43

There was a moment in time when I’d thought things would have worked out differently. I had thought that I, being at the Sapphire Ball and him seeing me, would magically mend everything, and we’d be together. Somehow, I don’t understand how my world could take a full turn into becoming this.

“The Luna is beautiful,” a group of women in front of me whispered to each other, but they hadn’t been talking about me. They had been talking about her—the lovely rose that clung to my mate.

“Genesis…” Claude spoke, and I just shook my head. I was determined to see this through. I may have been rejected, but I’d be damned if they would take away what little strength I had in myself.

“It’s a lovely part, Claude. It would be a shame for me to leave right now. After all, every fairy tale needs a villain.” The roles had been reversed. I wasn’t Cinderella anymore—in their eye