Zephyr stood still, his grip tightened on the drugs clutched in his hand. But Eddie's wasn't done.
“You look scared,” the man said, his breath heavy and ragged. “When people get scared they do crazy things… and I can tell that you are thinking the same thing too.”
The man's pale brown eyes darted to the sedative and back at Zephyr.
“Do it,” he said. “You have the means to end this now, to stop me from spilling your secret to the words, so you should finish it already.”
Tension sat thick in the atmosphere. Zephyr's fingers trembled on the drugs. The man's words were appealing, twisting a knot in his chest.
His memories stirred back at Rowan's warning on the night he saved Xander and his friends from the car accident. Rowan had warned him never to be the reason the humans found out a
