Andrei & Natalia Andrei The security tent felt far too small with all of us crammed inside. Damon sat across from me, his eyes clear now after the healers had flushed the wolfsbane from his system. Natalia stood beside him, one hand on his shoulder, chin lifted in cool defiance. As for Lilith, she was pressed close to my side, clutching my shirt and trembling like Damon would lunge across the table and attack her right then and there. “Let’s see what really happened,” I said, nodding to my Beta. My Beta pulled up the security footage on the laptop screen. The cameras had caught everything—one of the safeguards we had taken prior to the event, just in case of an incident like this one. The footage started twenty minutes before the incident. I watched Damon at the feast, talking with

