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I shivered as the wind stopped, everything going still and silent like the calm before a storm. I hated it.
The vampires all whispered until the one just behind Silas whispered in his ear.
Silas nodded.
“The other winter born is in your territory. The dagger is yours and the humans are yours. I don’t see what you want us to do with this information.”
“Simply sharing the information we have. You’re the ones who called this meeting, we are simply showing up as required,” Derik said, probably preferring as little involvement from the vampires as possible.
“Appreciated,” Silas said, before his left-hand vamp whispered in his ear again, and he nodded.
“Despite literally having all the time in the world, we cannot continue this meeting for long, so we will get to the point. Your winter born there is much more powerful than Elias ever was. Her power radiates despite being on a mountain where such things should be impossible.
“The barrier between our territories was threatened by it during your savage festivities recently, and I am not inclined to wait until that breaks,” Silas explained.
I had no idea what he meant. As vampires who liked human blood, I would have assumed that not having the barrier would be a good thing to them, but Silas made it sound like the opposite was the issue.
“You want the barrier?” I asked, before I could stop myself.
Derik looked over his shoulder, glaring at me to shut up, but it was too late–the question was out.
“Yes. The barrier is there to protect all races.”
“How?” I asked, stepping up with Derik, who was tense as anything, his lips pursed.
Silas smirked during his answer.
“The wolves cannot get into our territory with their fatal toxin, and we cannot sense your human blood that activates our bloodlust,” he explained, and the truth was in his voice.
If they wanted to be separated, then why was fear about vampires drilled into us so deeply as kids? Or was the bloodlust exactly what we should fear?
“If a human was in your territory…,” I prompted, and Silas shrugged.
“Then they wouldn’t be human for long.”
“I’m human,” I reminded him, trying to convince myself that maybe they weren’t as bloodthirsty as I had been made to believe, but Silas had an answer for that too.
“Incorrect.”
“Being a winter born doesn’t change what I am.”
“In fact, it does. It means your scent is much different to a human. You smell like pure power. A delectable taste, but not the insatiable taste of a human.
“But then again, we are who we are, and around the humans, yes, we tend to lose ourselves a little. It is safer for the barrier to remain to keep the races divided as they are.
“That is why I find it a little disturbing that such a ripple was made through it,”
Silas said, his attention turning back to Derik, who pushed me back behind him.
He was definitely going to tell me off for that one later.
“There’s nothing in the laws about a ripple, Silas,” Derik said, as if he was bored with the entire conversation, but I knew it was a facade because he was tense as hell next to me.
Silas looked like he saw through it too. “No, there is not. But there are against threats to the border. Which is what she is. Her power is disrupting it.”
I had no idea how I could when my “power” was inside me and all I had done was fuck during the heat. I hadn’t meant to cause any ripple. Apparently, that didn’t matter.
“There is no proof that it is her,” Derik snapped.
Silas grinned. “We both know it is. With power that outshines the witches’ blocks up here? Don’t play dumb, it is beneath you,” Silas said, his chin raising.
“Wrong. It could be Elias.”
Silas hissed at that. “We are not fools!”
Kai stepped forward, growling as he stood in a threatening stance toward the vampires, the sky harshening with dark clouds.
“Enough. The laws are clear. You may eliminate the threat with proof. There is none, and that is only if the threat itself is proven.
“Since that is not happening here and the winter born is linked, this meeting is over,” Kai interrupted, his voice deep with alpha vibes that made me shiver.
It always got to me when he got into that mode. Derik was more about diplomatic solutions and talking it out, but I knew when Kai got that voice on, someone was going to get fucked up for disobeying.
I liked getting fucked up by him, in a good way.
His eyes glanced at me and he smirked before narrowing his eyes back on the vamps, who were whispering to each other again.
“Fine. Our proposition for a solution then. You have slighted us. We are technically owed a winter born, you have claimed yours, and to keep the balance, once you have saved the brother from possession, then he belongs to us.”
“No!” I interrupted, but Kai dragged me back, glaring at me. I shook him off and stepped forward again. “You can’t have him.”
Silas ignored me and waited for Derik to answer.
“How do you know we plan to save him?” Derik shrugged, and we did, but he obviously wanted the vamps to think otherwise.
Silas was quick though and nodded to me. “Because of your pet. You won’t hurt her brother.”
“Elias is powerful, we may not have a choice.”
Silas laughed and shook his head before looking at me.
“She is all you need. If you have any brains, which being wolves makes me doubtful, you’ll use her. If you’re unsure then we’d be happy to take over and use her for ourselves,” he taunted.
Kai snarled as Derik held his arm out to hold him back. I grabbed Kai’s hand as he vibrated in anger.
Brax was strangely silent during the entire thing, but I was guessing he was trying to keep an eye on his shadows.
It was hard to feel them against the magic of the witches, but if I concentrated, I could feel mine whispering feelings and sending instincts to me, so I was guessing Braxton was using his too.
Even then, I wasn’t sure if it was a guess or I was being whispered to and that’s why I was assuming things.
Derik clenched his jaw, then looked at me, and I knew what he was going to say. I shook my head. There had to be another way.
“Don’t,” I warned.
He sighed and turned to the vamps. “We can’t promise you the other winter born.
We don’t know what will happen to him once Elias has been destroyed within him.
We can’t promise you a future we don’t know the outcome of.”
Derik shrugged, and Silas hardened his features, glaring, his patience gone.
“You will give us something, wolf. We will not allow the imbalance of the territories.”
Derik scoffed. “Imbalance? You have the entire realm. We have a small percentage that was salvaged from your last bloodlust frenzy.
“Your breeding rates have tripled, according to the latest records, and ours have lessened. With how many vampires compared to wolves, and then the fact that we also have the humans, I think we are the ones at the wrong end of the stick here.”
Silas shook his head. “Not with the current power running through your territory.”
“You are wrong. Elias and the brother Lucas want to take us out. They have a single goal–to wipe out the wolves. They are accumulating the power to do that.
“You are under no threat thus far, we are. Lorelai is the only chance we have against him, which is why we made sure you couldn’t take her. The balance has nothing to do with you right now.”
I swallowed that one hard, my mind turning, my heart cracking just a little. Enough to make me wince and look down so the stupid vampire couldn’t pick up on it.
Was the fact that I was a powerful winter born the only reason they had decided to link me? I had thought it was because they felt as strongly as I did, but it had been weird that the pack had agreed so readily.
Maybe it was because they knew the real reason?
I kept my head down, refusing to look up, so Silas wouldn’t see the doubt and hurt in my eyes because I had no hope of hiding it, it was too raw. It would be until I talked to the wolves about it.
“So you offer nothing?”
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