Chapter 137

EVELYN’S POV The shadows welcomed me like an old friend. Their silence was familiar—comforting, even. It felt poetic, in a cruel kind of way, that I’d returned to the very place where it had all begun. The shadows. The corners of the room. The hidden edges of conversations. That’s where I lived before anyone ever knew my name. That’s where I watched. Where I planned. Where I waited. And it was from those very shadows that I first saw her. Olivia. Long before Dominic knew what she would come to mean to him, I had already noticed the shift. I saw it in the way his eyes began to linger a little longer on her presence, in the way his smile faltered when she entered a room. I saw it in the slight stiffness in his shoulders when she was around—like his body recognized her even before his heart did. But more than that… I saw her. Not the sweet, quiet little wolf everyone believed her to be. No, there was something else beneath the surface—something wild, something hidden. My mother used to sa