Chapter 200
Aria
I pace the length of the war room, waiting for the Alphas to file in with an impatience that only seems to grow as the moments
pass.
Talk about tedious.
“Relax,” Ransom says, legs propped up on the table, casual as you please.
“How can I? I need them to agree to this?”
He picks at a cuticle. “The desperation won’t help.”
I can feel my eye start to twitch.
Hazel elbows him, and he yelps. “Hey!”
“What he means to say is if you want people to take your thoughts seriously, you have to get a grip. Explain to them why this is important and the benefit it will have to everyone. You already have our support, so that means Elliot will be on board, and if your brother knows what’s good for him, so will he.”
I snort. “Yeah, you’re walking those males around like golden retrievers.”
“Says the girl holding four leads. Quite the kennel you have there,” Ransom teases.
“Princess, you better not be flirting with the fire sprite,” Elliot warns, grabbing his throat and chin from behind and tilting his head up to give him a hard, demanding kiss.
The sound that comes out of Ransom is a grunt that lies somewhere between frustration and gratification.
That is way hotter than I expected it to be. The temperature of the room rises several degrees.
My wolf agrees.
“Would you stop,” Ransom says when Elliot sits beside him.
– thigh “You like it.”
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The mist on ve velfie se spike of lust I felt at seeing Elliot handle Ransom in that dominant, proprietataway,
flushes. “Is everyone e an their way?
Ronan says fromo hehind them.
Alphases tenten dhe room, followed by Rick and Liam.
sit around the table: the map of the hunter fortress spread across the table. The little carved markers still sit in the same each on one representing patrol routes, entry and exit points, and the points of reinforcememes
Hatunam says “We’re all curious as to why you requested a meeting.”
dreen thinking about the hunters fortress. More specifically, I’ve been thinking copothane Hunters, the ones like Hazel and
otn.”
stipples his fingers together. “What about them?”
kat ny mates, drawing strength from our bond. Hazel is right. If I want others to take me seriously, I have to start asserting elf. In my heart, I know, in my heart, this is part of the path we have to taiteke we have any chance of disrupting the cycle of eless violence.
el nods at me, telling me to go on. “I come to learn that many of the bitings we thought we knew about hunters were as untrue he things the Assembly led us to believe. The reality is that most of coale hunters under their ranks were unlucky enough to be into their family. They are forced to submit, coerced into a life thaney do not necessarily agree with.”
nods along, casting an understanding glance at Ransom and einzel
ay is this information important?” Alpha Cobalt says with tumiralithievous smile on his face.
ink we owe it to the hunters to have a chance to walkowaway.”
at’s proposterous!” Ben exclaimed. “A snake doesn’tchanangit, it only becomes a bigger snake. To allow them to walk away is the e as condemning our future generations to fade thehow wrath.”
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