Chapter 25: Quiet Bonds

Enzo’s

I stormed back into the mansion, my boots heavy on the floor. My head was pounding with everything Dean said at the council meeting.

His smirk, his taunts about Noah being my weakness—it was all stuck in my mind, twisting like a painful knife. I went straight to my office, slamming the door behind me, and sank into the chair behind my desk.

My hands clenched into tight fists, my knuckles white with tension. Dean would stop at nothing to get to Noah, to ...