Chapter 145: Dark Rising

FAYE

I gaped at the elders, not sure how to handle the situation now.

Granger and Deindre trooped past Yvonne and me to the living room, not bothering to wait for us to invite them in.

We all moved to my dining room wordlessly, the tension palpable, and settled down, all five of us.

It was painfully obvious that one of us was missing.

"Axel took the moonstone."

Yvonne nodded, her mouth pressed into a thin, hard line.

Granger's eyes blazed with fury. "So this was what he meant when he said he would show us."

All eyes turned to watch him.

"Show us what?" I asked him, not sure I really wanted to know the answer but needing to hear it still.

"He was furious that you wouldn't mate with him. He said if the council didn't dethrone you, we would have hell to pay."

My heart dropped so hard it fell to the floor of my stomach.

I felt a little light-headed and I had to swallow and try hard to focus and not give in to the darkness.

Yvonne had been right all along.

Axel wasn't just punishing me