Chapter 87

HAZEL

The second that Darian talked, the voices stopped, and a quiet waiting ensued. Are they going to attack? Where were they hiding—and what clever fool thought it’d be a good idea to simulate an environment that Darian and Gabriel have been in since they were children?

I was seriously reconsidering the collective intelligence of the highly esteemed Council that we’d been fooled into revering all our lives.

But we were still on their territory and somewhere in this gigantic place was a frightened little girl who needed her father.

“Let’s go,” Gabe called.

I looked up and saw Darian watching me. He never took his eyes off me but they kept shifting between the two people living inside of him—the human and the monster.

“What’s on your mind?” He asked while the others walked ahead.

They hurried up the stairs but for some reason, Darian wasn’t in as much of a hurry anymore.

“Nothing, we should go,” I took a step, forgetting that his hand