Stefan POV
I was missing Amber terribly and getting sick of these so-called Council meetings with a bunch of interfering elders. Why could they not see the beauty in having a shifter for a mate? The doors it could open up for us? The relationships we might be able to forge with another species? Why was it considered so taboo to them? I didn't understand it at all. Just because my parents had been killed by shifters didn't mean we should hate them all and consider them to be the same. That was the very height of foolishness.
Elder Mathias spoke "We are concerned about you having a shifter for a mate, that is the truth. How can we know that we can trust her? What do you know about this woman other than that you are mates?"
I glowered at him. Out of all the elders who seemed to be against
