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 had returned to the very place where it had all begun. The shadows. The corners of the room. The hidden edges of conversations. That was where I lived before anyone ever knew my name, where I watched, planned and 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 lingered a little longer on her presence, in the way his smile faltered when she entered a room. I saw it in the slight stiffness of 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 say I had a gift: the a