Isla's POV
Calista stepped forward with that slow, confident walk she always had, like she owned whatever ground she set foot on. I really hated her for bullying Killian.
She looked at Killian, then at Scott, then at me, as if measuring who could be bartered and who could not.
“You want your son pack's freedom back,” she said, voice soft but sharp. “You want an end to this little chaos. I want my family intact, and I want my daughter’s future secure. Hear me out.”
She didn’t wait for him to answer. She laid out the offer in plain cold sentences that she would take Scott and Elijah and every vampire under her wing out of his territory tonight.
She would remove whatever threads tied them to his borders, relocate them to a place far from his reach, and she would never interfere with Ki
