Alison's POV
Well, we got through almost everyone before my mates burst through the door. At least we got through all the new people. We decided to talk to Andrew again though. I guess we shouldn't have tested our limits.
"Alison!" Chris had exclaimed as soon as he opened the door. Cameron walked in quietly behind him. One wraps me in a relieved hug and the other stands silently by the door, fixing me with a disappointed stare.
The vampire in the room, despite being the only one, laughs and gestures to Cameron stood with his arms crossed on the wall. "Wow, is he always like this? Or do vampires just piss him off?" He asks, chuckling through his words.
I roll my eyes, looking at Andrew over Chris' shoulder as I return his hug. "He hates when I do dangerous things without him." I clarify.
"And having conversations with us is dangerous?"
'Yes." Cameron answers for me this time. "For a million different reasons."
Chris nods as he pulls away from me. "What were you thinking, sweetheart?'
Amelia, having explicitly not made any promises about getting involved, chooses now to make her entrance into this conversation. "She was thinking that they haven't done anything bad in the entire time that they've been here. And it was my idea." She defends me.
"Oh, so you're the one who put her life in danger." Cameron steps off the wall. "I don't care if you're her best friend, she's the Luna. Our Luna. And her safety comes before your insatiable curiosity."
Damn. I know I should take his side but, I was on Amelia's from the beginning of this one. "Stop it!" My palms slam against the metal table as I stand. "She's not my keeper. I make my own decisions. So you can't talk to her like that!" Irritation flares in my stomach. Why is he being such a baby about this?
"Take him back to his cell." Cameron's head turns to the warriors who had migrated towards each other when more people entered the small room. They rush forward, eager for the opportunity to leave as the tension grows bigger.
As they're exiting, I add on. "Keep the cuffs off." They stop to look between me and Cameron. I take my eyes off my mate to look at them. "Of all of them."
Neither Alpha makes a move to overrule me. Not right now. The door closes softly behind the warriors. Silent tension thickens throughout the room.
"What were you thinking?" Cameron breaks the quiet. He sounds pissed.
I step back from him, pulling Amelia away with me. "I was thinking that this had waited long enough. And that your biased perspective would be less than helpful." My head turns to now look at Chris. "It wasn't my plan when I left the dining room."
It's important to me that they know I wasn't plotting this behind their backs. I had no intention of interviewing the vampires without them when I left with Amelia. The only thing on my mind was escaping all the stares and spending time with my friend.
"It doesn't matter what your plan was, Ali." Chris responds, gentler than his brother but still upset. "We should've been clued in. You easily could have mindlinked me. Would I have told him?" He asks, pointing to his brother. "I don't know. But for your safety, someone should have known where you actually were."
Amelia steps up behind me, speaking up. "I convinced her. She said that we shouldn't do it without you guys and I pushed it because it was better to do it this way. It's obvious to all of us, including the vampires, that Alpha Cameron is not on their side. We needed to talk to them with the right amount of intimidation."
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Werewolf"Alison," one of them says, walking closer to me. "Yes, Alpha?" I ask as I shuffle back slightly, keeping my head down. He takes a few more quick steps towards me, backing me into the cupboards. I flinch when his hand reaches out to gently cup my fa...
