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-

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

word, but I knew it was

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

then Alister chuckled and the room grew cold. I had a feeling that the man never laughed a day in his life just from the way the rest looked at him. “A

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

the cost don’t you

hard on dad. “You think the human girl is

silence in the room chokes me. And then he replies, shocking everyone.

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.

anyone but I am trying to make you see why he lost control. He sees her as family and I

leaned back in contemplation before he looks

he spoke coldly. “Your

the human world Our people were nearly exposed because of

believe the boy is to be punished for bringing us to the brink

battered breaths, including me. When his eyes returned to me and narrowed coldly I knew the punishment

Severe

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

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