Chapter 87. While I Fucked Your Ex

Claude POV

It was boring.

The talks. The meetings. The strategies.

All of it—utterly boring. For the past few days I’d been stuck in the study, listening to my brothers, Verya, and the old man drone on. Their faces were as plain and serious as their words.

They debated how we would launch the attack on the camp where that bastard hid, how to move without drawing attention, how to make sure the rogue leader didn’t slip away.

Half the time I nearly dozed off.

Why? Because it felt like a waste of time. If we wanted him gone, we could have gone for him today and ended it.

It would have been easy, really. I could take him one on one, finish it in minutes, make those minutes the most agonizing of his life, slash his body, tear out his flesh, sink my fangs into him, break every bone. But of course I wouldn’t kill him.

Death would have been a mercy he didn’t deserve.

We’d drag him back to Fangspire and my brothers… oh, we’d have s