"No."
The silence that followed after I refused to take her on a suicide mission was deafening.
“No?” Eleni echoed, her eyebrows shooting up in defiance. “Did you just ‘no’ me?”
“It’s not a spectator sport, Eleni,” I said, my voice low and final. I poured every ounce of my authority into it. “It’s a suicide mission. You are human. Fragile. You have no idea what you’re asking.” I needed her to understand the sheer, mind-shattering scale of the danger. This wasn't a bar fight.
"Maybe we should erase her memories," Thethys suggested.
"We are not vampires," I reminded her.
"We may not be, but we know some," She insisted.
I sighed. Most humans would run to the hills once they discovered the supernatural world, but no, I had to find the one human who was stubborn enough to put herself
