Eralia’s POV
I’m terrified, so f.ucking terrified I can’t move, and as Benny turns toward me, blood pouring from the wound to his mouth, his shirt covered in blood that is both his own and the two men's, my whole body freezes. I’ve never seen anything like what just happened before. I’d heard stories from Mackenzie and Seona about their husbands and what happened to them, Mackenzie with Maxton's mother and Seona with her husband, but I’ve never seen any of the Cadell team fight in front of me before tonight.
As he reaches a hand out toward us, I feel my siblings flinch, gather closer to me, and my hands instinctively move behind me to protect them. I immediately see the flash of pain in Benny’s eyes, and it guilt claws at me. He thinks that my siblings are scared . . . of him, I know the
