Chapter 18

Zea's POV

My head jerked to the side and my eyes caught Cole staring at Phoenix with his arms crossed.

The little devil in me was already looking forward to the conversation between the two of them.

"What did you say?" growled Phoenix, took a few steps forward, and stood demonstratively in front of me. I quickly scurried to the side so that I couldn't just see Phoenix's sturdy back.

Cole wasn't impressed by Phoenix. He looked more bored, the exact opposite of Phoenix, who had tensed every single muscle in his body while growling. You could tell he was having a hard time restraining himself from attacking Cole.

Something in my body urged me to place my hand on Phoenix's shoulder to calm him down. If I hadn't tried hard to suppress that instinct, Cole would have chopped off my hand afterward. So I just stood there and watched the spectacle with a twinge of curiosity.

"I said to get your disgusting, remorseful claws off her," Cole re