Chapter 120

Edric's POV:

It’s almost sunrise when I sneak into the bedroom. Maya’s lying on her side, little Deimos cradled in her arm. They often sleep together like that, especially since I can’t spend as much time with her as I used to. I try, but I only have so many hours in the day.

I undress and slip into bed next to my loves, pulling them both into my arm. I wish I wasn’t so short with her earlier, but she caught me at a bad time. The unfortunates were in open revolt and nearly destroyed the clinic. They didn’t accept that we meant them no harm and were sure we wanted to exterminate them.

I had to order my warriors to help us. Much as they appreciate my new way of doing things, they still look down on the unfortunates and regard them as inferior. They made their displeasure known, and while they feel that they deserve special treatment, they do not think the unfortunates deserve to be treated with any kind of humanity. It will take me years to change their mindset.

I ended up wrangling