Tyler POV
The resistance meeting takes place in an abandoned school gymnasium, and the tension in the air is thick enough to cut with a knife. Seventy-three former supernatural beings sit on one side, facing twelve humans who somehow ended up on their allies list. Between them, three nuclear warheads rest in reinforced cases like the world's deadliest peace offering.
"Why should we trust you?" asks Maria Santos, the group's leader, a former vampire who looks like she hasn't slept since losing her abilities. "You're here because Thomas's daughter got lucky with a human doctor." That doesn't erase centuries of persecution.
"It doesn't," Brittany agrees, standing in the center of the gymnasium without any supernatural charisma to back her words. "But it proves that humans and supernatural
