Chapter 302

“They won’t harm you,” Damien answered my unspoken plea while watching Basin’s family over my shoulder. “They know what we would do if they wronged our family.”

The large room seemed to freeze in time for a moment. Basin broke the silence as he lifted Rose out of the water and then leapt out himself.

“You have some strange ideas,” he said calmly, “but we have no wish to challenge you. If you say the human is under your family protection, we believe you.”

Stayne’s family had watched the encounter with amusement and followed Basin out.

“I wouldn’t advertise such strangeness to the other men, though,” Stayne added thoughtfully. “They probably would not respect your wishes.”

Damien agreed and pulled me out. Evan wrung the water from my hair with an absorbent cloth as Kein dried my body and we bade the other families a good sleep.

Stayne laughed openly as he slung Fuji into his arm.

“We don’t rest yet, cousin, there is still much to do,” he said