Edira stared at her grandson before sighing. "Are you sure you want to see her? If you are seen with her, your mother will only become even more chaotic."
"Then let her be." Killian took a determined step forward to the room where Inez was getting treated. "She needs to understand that I am not her possession. I am her son, but that's all I will ever be to her. She doesn't fucking own me."
"Killian—"
"Silence!" Killian snapped. His voice rang with so much authority that every lycan in the room, including Edira, knelt on the floor. He then turned to look at Morrineth, who was kneeling beside her son and said to her, "It seems like you are having quite a lot of fun due to the connections and power that you have received by becoming a member of the council. But let me tell you something… this power was handed to you in exchange for the life of your daughter."
