Chapter 30

“Hello, Did you hear me? I said who is Onyx?” I tugged on Acelin’s arm trying to get his attention. We were walking back to his room and he hadn’t said a word since Niko told us about dinner, and now he wasn’t responding to me. What was going on in his mind? Whoever this person was, it had him shook, and that worried the hell out of me.

“I am sorry. I must have been in deep thought.” He paused and sighed before continuing. “Onyx is.. my sister.”

His sister? That didn’t seem too bad. Why would he be so worried about his sister? She couldn’t be any worse that Claudis, could she?

“I didn’t know you had a sister.”

“I have many siblings, but Onyx is by far the most dangerous. She is the youngest of us all and most vicious. She is like my father’s personal attack dog. Where I handle the more diplomatic side of things as the future leader, she is a warrior and one of the strongest, if not the strongest, that we have. She has killed many wolves, vampires and others, and it is not just beca