"If you think wearing my crest makes you safe from the knives in this room, Elizabeth, you are dead wrong."
James didn't even turn around as he spoke, his broad back rigid against the rain-streaked glass of the grand balcony in Sector One.
"I didn't take your crest to be safe, James," I said, stepping into the cold air, my high heels clicking sharply against the marble floor. "I took it so no one in this city could question whose side I am standing on."
"They don't care whose side you are on!" James snapped, spinning toward me with a raw, dangerous speed that made my pulse spike. "The regional Alpha elders are arriving at midnight! They don't see a Luna who saved this city from Natasha. They see a human standing on the highest throne in the eastern territory!"
"Then let them look!" I s
