Chapter 47 – Little Red Riding Hood

(Brielle’s POV)

If Giles were here, he would not waste time listening to Raven blabbering trivial things about the Order, but there was something about his words swaying me from attacking him. My feet were stuck on the ground as if the roots under the old tree had snaked and imprisoned me.

My nostrils flared in anger, but I never made a move against him, like I was waiting for the right time that was never coming.

“You are a threat to humankind because your kind is a monster, looking at us as if we are at the bottom of the food chain. You are to answer to the Order because of the people you killed, Raven.”

“Wrong!” He guffawed, silencing even the wind and birds around the area. “The Order of the Orion was terrified at the children of the night, looking at us as villains and using us as their scapegoat because they’re not willing to accept our existence. Your kind has an end, but we are immortals. We are more powerful than you.”

I gritted my teeth, wanting to remind him he was created,