Chapter 387

Valeria’s POV

I didn’t go with him that night.

No matter how his voice lingered in my ears… no matter how Orion’s small arms had wrapped around me like I was something precious.

No matter how my heart had trembled when Alpha Gideon looked at me as if he already owned my past, present, and future.

I turned away from the parking lot.

Away from the black car.

Away from him.

And walked home.

The night