242. Verdict

~ CASIMIR ~

I stood there, in Rake’s chamber, seething. Maya was at my shoulder, murmuring in my head that if I so much as twitched a finger towards my power, she’d cut me off for good.

‘I don’t believe you can do that.’

‘Do you want to risk the possibility?’

I growled and the elders all watched me, disapproval heavy on their faces.

They’d already expressed their shock and unhappiness that I was even willing to put them in the position of having to make a judgment on this. But I did not back down.

And the longer we stood th