Chapter 137: Because You’re Human
Silence settled over the grand hall like a suffocating fog, thick and impenetrable. No one spoke. No one dared to move. Even the candle flames, flickering from their towering chandeliers above, seemed to cower under the weight of the moment.
The air was heavy, dense with a tension that curled through the room like smoke. A foreboding stillness stretched between them, each second dragging like an eternity.
Nothing like this had ever happened before.
It was shocking enough that Zylan Reed, a man known for his ruthlessness, had brought a woman to this meeting. But not just any woman—a human. That alone was unheard of, a deviation so severe that some struggled to believe what they were seeing. Yet, what truly left them reeling was something far more dangerous.
Zylan had chosen to entrust a matter of grave importance—one that could alter the very foundation of vampire history—to his human wife.
A human.
The weight of that decision pressed down on them like a stone. It was one thing to tolerate humans as mere outsiders, as food, as lesser beings meant to exist in the shadow of their kind. But for her to stand among them, to be treated as an equal, as a partner in a matter so crucial—this was something they could not comprehend.
Still, it wasn’t just the sheer impossibility of it that unsettled them. No, it was something else entirely. It was the way she had spoken. The way her voice, calm yet sharp, had cut through the thick tension.
The way she had called them out.
Spoken so boldly. So fearlessly.
Her words rang in their minds even now, as if they were still echoing through the chamber. She had called them disrespectful toward Zylan. A human had accused them—them, high-ranking figures in the vampire world—of failing to give him the honor he deserved.