Chương 242: CHAPTER 242 Verdict

　　~ CASIMIR ~

　　I stood there, in Rake's chamber, seething. Maya was at my shoulder, murmuring in my head that if I so much as twitched a finger towards my power, she'd cut me off for good.

　　'I don't believe you can do that.'

　　'Do you want to risk the possibility?'

　　I growled and the elders all watched me, disapproval heavy on their faces.

　　They'd already expressed their shock and unhappiness that I was even willing to put them in the position of having to make a judgment on this. But I did not back down.

　　And the longer we stood there, the further Jesse got from us.

　　My sense of her was fading. I would never lose it entirely, I knew. But it became fuzzy… uncertain. We'd never been this physically far apart before, and it was making me pant.

　　The roiling anger in my chest was giving way to fear.