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-

been his friend, 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 as

I wanted to short at the word, but I knew it was

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

that the man never laughed a day in his life just from the way the rest looked at him.

Peter looked at me with a wince. “Yes, as a sister, one of his blood,” Dad said firmly and

matter the cost don’t you agree

eyes now hard on dad. “You think the human girl is worth all this trouble?ven worth the nitial of downfall of our

taut and the silence in the room chokes me. And then he replies, shocking everyone. “Yes. As my son had mentioned, she’s not just

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

not condoning anyone but I am trying to make you see why he lost control. He sees her as

before he looks

coldly. “Your blind

us our secrecy from the human world Our people were nearly exposed because of

over the council members “I believe the boy is to be punished for bringing us to the brink of disaster.” He spoke firmly,

eyes returned to me and narrowed

Severe

uncasy from his request, yet nodded

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