Blaise Blaise silently tapped his finger on top of the table in the back of the restaurant. A good chunk of the council sat around him and squabbled over what to do about the escaped hybrid, but he wasn’t paying any attention. Blaise’s thoughts were on Celia. She looked so hurt to see him, but the way she caved in when he said please was priceless. “Perhaps my brother has something to add.” Maddik’s voice ripped him from his thoughts like a sliver jabbed into his mind. Blaise stopped tapping his finger and looked at his brother’s malicious gaze and then sat up straighter with an inhale. “What do you plan to do with the hybrid once she’s captured? If, that is, you can take her alive.” Blaise felt Landon stiffen and Quinn’s odd look from next to him, but the narrowed gaze of Maddik ma

