Chapter 65

For now, maybe. While they’re all distracted with vampire attacks and end of world foreboding, but my gut says it’s temporary. I can feel the hatred lingering in the air from Juan’s fierce frown, and it unsettles me in every kind of way. “You all know why we are here,” Juan begins. It’s the final push needed to bring a total hush to the room as all completely still, not even the shuffle of moving bodies, and fall deathly silent. It tugs my attention back to him, and I peek around the side of the male in front of me to catch sight of him again. “A long-forgotten enemy attacked us, and quite frankly, we didn’t see it coming and were not prepared. Despite the rumbling of recent months, we didn’t honestly expect them to rise and attack in this way, and we failed our people. We lost fifty-three of our kind, on the dark side of the mountain, tonight. Forty-seven lost in the battle and six bonded who perished when their mate's heart took its last beat.” My heart aches as he says it, visualizi