Jem eyed the heavily crowded room and shifted in the heavy silence. He did not think many people could fit in his room, yet here they were. There was a distinct gap between the vampires and mermaids as they eyed one another in distrust. Their lot was standing at the front, watching everybody else.
His room was big; there was no point in calling it anything but. The sitting area, essentially two white sofas and a coffee table had been pushed to the side, in front of his sage green walls, to make more space for everyone to stand. He had to close the curtains on his floor-to-ceiling window corner so the vampires didn’t burn.
But Jem couldn’t stop his eyes from repeatedly wandering over to the two in front of the mermaid crew, standing near his desk. The one with paper-white skin and the o
