Xade’s pov

Murmurs rippled through the council like an uncontrollable bush fire. but one stern look from Alister and the room goes quiet.

I kept my expression neutral, refusing to let him see that he was getting under my skin.

“Tell me, boy.” Alister began, his voice sharp and cold. “What possessed you to put our kind in danger for some girl?”

My beast stirred and the air shifted in the room. Alister rose one brow

in surprise, sensing the shift in my body. “She’s not j sneered, unable to hold my tongue back.

“Xade.” Peter warned in a low hiss

me girl.” I

Alister’s eyes narrowed at my boldness while Dad stood rigid beside me, his posture a warning for me to calm down. Which I am finding

hard to do.

“Really?” Alister asked with boredom in his tone. “Then who is she to you? Enlighten us. We want to know who this human is to you to make you not think so clearly and jeopardize our lives”

“She’s-

a family friend for years.” Dad cuts in stiffly. “She’s like family despite her being human. When her father died. I became like a second dad to her She’s like a sister to Xade. Of course his instincts to protect her is very great which resulted into him not being able to think

but I knew it was best

when he spoke and he seemed to be thinking. The silence in the room was suffocating as the

laughed a day in his life just from the way

a wince. “Yes, as a sister, one of his blood,” Dad said firmly

cost don’t you

on dad. “You think the human girl is

replies, shocking everyone. “Yes.

if he had tasted something bitter and disgusting. “Exposing us all for one human girl!” He snarled, the veins in his neck and forehead casting through his skin.

as family and I have raised my children to fight

back in contemplation before he looks over

And then he spoke coldly.

the human world Our

to be punished for bringing us to the brink of disaster.” He spoke firmly, his voice traveling

eyes returned to me and narrowed coldly I knew the punishment

Severe

grew uncasy from his request, yet nodded and walked out of

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