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.