Chapter-86. The veil

[Raven]

"Where have you been all this time? I thought you left," I addressed Nyssa, walking towards the entrance of the council hall with Asher.

Asher entered the hall while I stayed back with Nyssa.

She glared at me. "What kind of boyfriend are you? Your girlfriend was missing for over an hour and you didn't even care to stalk her? What if I was kidnapped or something bad happened to me? We are in a political war zone, after all." I narrowed my eyes, raising an eyebrow.

"First, if you were ever kidnapped, Nyssa, I'd be worried about the kidnapper and second... what's up with that temper? Got your heat?"

Scowling, she hit my arm and I could feel the grievance in her touch. My laughter died on my lips as her eyes flared, burning with something darker.

"I want you to look at me, Raven!" she said, and I nodded slowly, scanning her.

"Oooo-k... and?"

Taking a sharp breath, she hit my arm again-harder this time. "Seriously Raven? You see no difference in me?"

I squinted my eyes, peering at Nyssa with utmost concentration.

"You grew a tail!"

"NO!" she growled.

"Boob job!" I said with utmost confidence.

"Gross, no!" she snarled.

"New... hairstyle!" I said, and she punched my arm with every intention of cracking my bones.

"I changed my fucking clothes, Raven!" Nyssa hissed. "You really never notice. You don't even care."

"Tsk!" I clicked my tongue. "Nyssa, I-I noticed. I was just teasing you. These new clothes look great on you. But why did you change your clothes?" "There are three Luna candidates now, Raven. This isn't about just looking great. It's about staying on top. One mistake, and I lose everything," she said.

I saw Viella earlier. She was probably in the same clothes as she was wearing before. Does that mean... Nyssa changed her clothes for that omega? I broke into laughter.

"Stop laughing!" Nyssa snapped, her eyes tensing up. "Do you really think this is a joke?"

"Come on, Nyssa. Lowering yourself to compete with an omega?" I scoffed, shaking my head. "What happened to your standards? You don't need to feel so insecure because of... an omega. Your pure alpha blood is enough to overshadow her mere presence."

Nyssa stared at me blankly.

"Yet somehow I disappear every time she's around you," Nyssa's low voice trembled as she held back her frustration. "And even when she's not around, you're always watching her; stalking her. She haunts-your phone-your computer-your butterflies... your eyes."

eyes, letting out a mocking sigh. "Nyssa,

her!" Nyssa stepped closer to me, holding my

down on me, making my stomach twist with emotions so foreign, I didn't

brides, not even with me," she whispered,

stared at Nyssa as she tried to hold back her

sounded ridiculous and delusional. However, I

I'll end this game. She's just a temporary thrill, but you are permanent for me. So..." I lifted her chin and leaned closer to her lips. "Don't

body arched against mine. "Then prove it..." she whispered, her lips inches away from mine. "Prove that you're mine, not hers." Her breath, warm and heavy, lingered too close. "After the meeting ends, be with me. Spend the night with

masked it off with a smirk instead. Wrapping my arm around her waist,

"As you wish..."

***

one leg crossed over the other as my

were slowly taking their seats in the shadows

stayed back as well. This was going to be a significant moment in our

Viella as she took her seat. She clearly didn't want to be here, but she, too,

hung in the hall, occasionally pierced by the groans of the elder

writhe in pain. His cries for mercy

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all eyes turning

thought he would come with Xanthea. Stupid, he

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gaze flicked upward to the elder stuck on the chandelier. Without a

out of our sight into the infinite darkness

he did that to

crossed my mind - Xanthea, with her wide innocent eyes, would be horrified to see a man strung up like a decorative piece.

her pale, disturbed face brought an amused grin to

Ezra

here," Ezra replied, exhaling like he carried the weight of the

shaking my

meeting will begin in a minute," Isagi announced. "I request everyone to settle

gravity enveloped the hall. The elders and jury sat in stiff silence. Asher walked to his seat beside Viella, but

in his throat as he slowly, almost absent-mindedly, got up from his seat. His gaze remained locked in the same direction as Asher's, as though the world around

eyes as the doors opened, and the

figure stepping through the entrance had cast a spell, trapping me in a poisonous

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