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However, it had ended up taking us two hours because Kalon and I were addicted to each other.
Chapter 21
Kalon~
If Brander was pissed off that Mora and I had shown up an hour late, I didn’t give a fuck. After we’d gone back into the cabin to shower and change after the fight, things had gotten out of control. It had started with Mora kissing my now-healed wound in the shower, and from there, we’d ended up a bloody mess again. I hadn’t been lying when I’d said that forever wasn’t going to be enough with the woman.
When we arrived at Brander’s, everyone had been waiting in his guest house, which was just a huge structure that’d been built for meetings such as this one. There was a restroom and small kitchen, but that was it. The rest of the walls had been torn down to create an open space, large enough for the three tribunal seats and the total of twenty coven members. Noctis had seven members, Tenebris had seven members, and Diluculum had six, so including Mora, there were twenty-one of us here.
Once everyone was positioned and seated, Brander asked, “So, we’re here, Kalon. What’s this all about?”
I tossed the bag that I’d been carrying over my shoulder on the ground, three heads rolling out onto the floor in front of everyone. You could hear gasps, but that was because you could see the charred pieces of their faces still, something that shouldn’t still be visible. Again, normal fire could hurt us, but not damage us the way the sun could.
“What is this?” Thorin asked, and I could hear the fear in his voice. Brander must have delivered my message to him, and good.
“That’s what’s left of the three independents that came after Mora,” I answered, and since she was standing right next to me, I saw every eye in the place fly in her direction. “And your fuck buddy is next.”
“Now, wait one second-”
“Stop,” Brander instructed, looking over at Thorin. “Everyone just…let’s all just calm down a bit.” Brander looked back at me and Mora. “What happened?”
“They showed up, claiming that Mora needed to be destroyed because she was an abomination to our species and a threat to us all,” I stated honestly. “They were frightened. They’d been fed some paranoid delusions of what Mora is and what she was capable of, and they really had believed that they were in danger somehow.”
“Now, to be fair, people often are afraid of the unknown, Kalon,” Phaeron said. “It’s no different for vampires.”
“Except for the fact that Mora’s abilities were supposed to have remained a secret until we knew more about her,” I snapped. “The three of you had given your fucking word, but Thorin couldn’t wait to run back and tell his whore all about Mora and the prophecy.”
“Watch your tongue, son,” Thorin bit out. “I’m hundreds of years older than you, respect that.”
“Respect that?” Mora chuckled darkly, finally speaking. “Are you serious?” She took a step forward. “You put my life in danger, and you have the audacity to demand respect from us? Knowing that I was still struggling with being turned and finding out about that damn prophecy, you broke your word to do what was best for us all, putting my life in danger, and you want me to respect you?” Mora’s back straightened. “Come down here, and I’ll be more than happy to show you just how much I respect you.”
I reached out, grabbed Mora’s hand, then pulled her back to stand next to me again. “Baby, calm down.” I could feel her incisors coming out, and we weren’t here to start a war. Plus, it still felt weird as fuck to be able to feel what she was going through.
“Yes,” Brander said loudly. “Let’s all calm down.”
“Why are they burnt?” Phaeron asked. “That’s what I’d like to know. I understand why they’d been decapitated, but…how did they suffer such harsh burns?”
Every member of each coven remained deathly quiet, wondering the same thing. While only my coven had known that Mora was real, the others had all still heard of the prophecy, so they already had a good idea of what Mora was capable of. Nevertheless, I knew that this new development was going to freak everyone the fuck out because I was still kind of spinning from the knowledge myself.
“The reason that Mora can walk in the daylight is because she’s…” I looked over her way, and when she gave me a tight nod to continue, I could feel myself wanting to fuck her again. Strength on a woman was fucking beautiful. “Are you sure?”
Mora nodded again. “I’m sure.”
“What is it, Kalon?” Brander prompted.
“Mora isn’t just psychic, clairvoyant, and empathic,” I told them. “The prophecy claimed that the visionary of darkness was going to be able to see the light and the dark in their truest forms. It claimed that the visionary of darkness was going to be able to walk the land without fear, which we concluded that she was going to be able to walk in the sun since that’s the only thing that we fear.”
“We know all this, Kalon,” Phaeron snapped, frustrated and a bid afraid himself.
“Well, she’s able to see the light in its truest form and walk in the sun because that’s what she’s made of,” I finally told them. “Those heads are burnt because Mora burned them.”
The gasps in the room were loud enough to be comical. I could feel everyone’s fear as Brander’s eyes widened, Phaeron paled, and Thorin’s mouth dropped open. In a room full of people that I had once considered my family, I felt only Mora. I trusted no one in the room, except her. Maybe Leander and Brander, but barely.
“What does that mean?” Brander finally asked. “How did she…how did she burn them?”
I squeezed her hand in mine. “Do you think that you can show them?” I asked as I looked down at her.
She shrugged like she wasn’t changing everyone’s lives. “I can try, but…I don’t think it’ll work unless someone is threatening you.”
