Chapter 547: A Red Blizzard
Every noble sitting in the main hall looked on in confusion as Lynette pointed her at the Katag family and their guards.
“What are you doing!?” yelled Evelyn.
Elise Veres looked her dead in the eye. “Protecting my family.” She turned to Stryg and offered him her hand, “Are you with me, cousin?”
Stryg looked at her and the way her lips curled in a confident, half-smirk, the same way as Callum’s. He nodded hesitantly and grabbed her hand.
She tried to pull him up from his chair, but he didn’t budge. Stryg stood up on his own and yanked her to him with a simple jerk. Elise stumbled into his embrace.
He leaned into her ear and whispered, “I don’t trust you.”
The wine rippled in their glasses as he spoke and the air grew still.
Elise wrapped her arms around his back, embracing him in front of everyone. “You don’t need to trust me,” she whispered. “You just need to trust that I will do everything to protect House Veres from ruin. And right now that means getting your womanizing rear out of here.”
The haze around his mind was getting worse, he could feel his chest burning with an icy heat that only kept growing. Stryg wasn’t sure what to think, but he couldn’t see what options he had left. Elise was family, but she was also someone who had reasons to hate him. Then there was Cly…