All we can do is wait.

Lazarus pov

I leave the office. If Than wants to deal with the Elder himself, I won’t stand in his way or try to stop him.

Besides, the remark about leeches made me rather uncomfortable, and I prefer to stay out of that territory.

I can’t claim that I have the best relationship with vampires, and neither is my opinion about them anywhere relatively high, but then again, I have no idea what Than meant by leeches.

Perhaps he didn’t mean blood-sucking monsters. There’s always a possibility he addressed some weird demon creatures.

As I storm past the Council members, none of them questions me about the whereabouts of the man who followed me to the office.

If anything, they appear too overtaken by the attention the pack members give them. Some decided to make themselves comfortable and sat down while others silently follow the youngest maids around.

Good thing there are guards all over the place here. There’s no saying what those old farts think, and everyone knows how they love usi