"What will you do now?" Santi asked. The tension in the room was gone, but Thanatos's expression was still dark, and his hand was still balled into a fist.
"Talk to mate," her wolf said.
"Not now, Cha. I'm afraid of what he might do to us if we interfered," Calliope stated. Their wolf bonded the moment they first met, but not their human side. The bond was uncontrollably stronger, yet she could resist longer because of her hatred and fear for him.
"He won't hurt us. He needs us, Cali," Cha said, urging her to communicate with Thanatos.
"Than..." Everyone stared at her when she called Thanatos's name. Calliope bravely put her hand on his and spoke.
"Who was that man?"
"He's Maximillian Boudelaire, the dangerous man I told you about," Thanatos said without hesitation. Now that it ha
