The three council members, once their decision was made, heard nothing more.
It didn't matter that Dominick tried to convince them that I was not a threat or that I begged them to stay and listen. They carried out my sentence, forever binding me to Dominick and his pack so that I could never get my family back to power. There was no case, they did not listen or have mercy, the risk they said was too great, and canceling a Mate agreement would set a precedent that they could not afford.
The house woke up to the sound of my pleas and it turned out that it was not as empty as I thought since as soon as I began to follow the representatives of the council as they left, more than one awakened face peeked through the corridors, but they all looked at me. They looked impassively, some without u
