Emerald couldn't help but smile when she saw Julian's reaction when he entered the room. The moment Julian and Elder enter the human territory, the hunters warm them that they are coming. Hunters are their allied and govern the human cities. So their peers need permission to enter the human territory. And Aunt Jamie's house was part of hunter village or subdivision because her husband happened to be one of the highest-ranking officials of the Supernatural Hunter Association. All witches and other supernatural have protection from hunters in the places they govern here in the human world unless you are a rogue or dark creature. Now that Emerald sees her mate for the first time in person, after many years of knowing him from afar. She feels drawn to him even more. He's so handsome. No