*Chapter 16:
ALESSIA
Three seconds to lose the room.
Axel’s fist was still locked in Azriel’s grip, bone had cracked and neither of them cared.
“Mine,” Axel snarled again. Raze was out, black in his eyes, saliva on his teeth. He wasn’t looking at me. He was looking at Azriel’s hands on the wall by my head. At the space Azriel’s body made that hid me from the camera. “You don’t get to claim her first.”
Azriel didn’t answer, Kade didn’t do words, he shoved. Axel flew back ten feet, hit the stairwell railing, and the metal _bent_.
That was rage.
Liam’s laughter got louder. “Good dogs, Fight over the scraps. She’ll still die feral, Council will see that claw. Article Three,No trial, just a bullet.”
That was fear. Not his, but mine, because he was right.
The red camera light blinked,S
