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-

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 knew it was best Alister thought that

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

that the man never laughed a day in his life just from the way

as a sister, one of his blood,” Dad said firmly and steadily despite the tension in the room “And family

the cost don’t you agree

girl is worth all

grows 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

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

lost control. He sees her as family and I have raised my children to fight for their family,

before he looks over

then he spoke coldly. “Your blind

nearly costed us our secrecy from the human world Our people were nearly

bringing us to the brink of disaster.” He spoke firmly, his

battered breaths, including me. When his eyes returned to

Severe

Rose “He commanded Peter who grew uncasy from his request, yet nodded and

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