Her New Allegiance, His Shattered Hope

"Your Rival's Luna," I repeated, watching Rhys's face contort with rage and disbelief. The shock in his eyes gave me a twisted sense of satisfaction.

"You're lying," he spat, his fingers digging into my waist hard enough to bruise. "You can't be Valerius's Luna."

I tilted my head, studying him with cold detachment. "Why would I lie? After all, you made it perfectly clear I wasn't good enough to be yours."

His face paled further, a muscle jumping in his jaw. "So what, you just ran straight to him after our fight? Became his little whore?"

I laughed, the sound hollow and bitter. "Is that what bothers you, Rhys? That I might have been with another man? Well, congratulations—you were right about me all along."

Confusion flashed across his face.

"I am a whore," I said with deliberate cruelty, watching him flinch at the word. "I've been Orion's from the start. All those late nights I was 'working'? All those times my phone rang with calls from 'D'? Guess who that was."