in my body since we climbed up the stairs onto this plane.
Enoch’s face appears above me, and before I can so much as pluck an earbud out to hear what he has to say, his head snaps to the left. His face turns from hesitant and questioning to pissed in less than a second. I sit up a little to track who Enoch is now snarling at, and feel zero surprise at finding Bastien on the other side of whatever the fuck is going down. I debate for a second if I even want to know. I’m about two seconds away from just leaning back in the chair and letting them figure it the fuck out when Enoch goes from pissed to enraged and rounds on Bastien.
I rip the music from my ears and unbuckle myself, ready to intervene.
“We would never fucking do that!” Enoch shouts at Bastien, his hands slashing away from each other, his body language punctuating his point. His eyes are filled with fire.
“Bullshit! You fucking knew what your dad and the other elders were going to do. You were all too eager to welcome her into your home and start working with her so you could see what her magic could do. Do you think we’re that fucking stupid? You think we didn’t know that you and your daddy were trying to set her up with you?” Bastien accuses.
“Oh please, Fierro. Despite your delusional conspiracy theory, there wasn’t some big evil plan to steal Vinna away. No one even knew your coven wanted to claim her until the fucking trial,” Nash interjects.
“Somebody needed to do something,” Enoch adds. “It’s not like you guys were stopping her uncle from treating her like shit.”
“You better shut the fuck up right now, Cleary,” Knox shouts and rears up out of his seat on the plane. The rest of the guys on both sides of the argument stand up too, and the tension goes from thick and uncomfortable to suffocating. “You don’t get to pretend that you’re some fucking hero, not when we all know what you let happen to Ryker!”
Enoch throws his hands up in exasperation. “I was a fucking kid! I didn’t know. I thought everyone’s home life was like mine. I had no fucking clue what he was going through with his dad!”
“You were his best friend, and it was fucking obvious. I told my parents that something was wrong, and they went to the council that same day. Your dad tried to convince the elders not to look into it at all,” Knox bellows, his face red and furious.
I’m shocked by Knox’s revelation, and my gaze immediately jumps to Ryker. He’s standing next to Knox with his hand on Knox’s chest to keep him from advancing any further. His face is hard and unreadable, but his sky-blue eyes flash from torn to sad.
“Here we go again with the your fucking dad bullshit. My parents were friends with his parents; they didn’t think Trevor was hurting Ryker. Either way though, that has nothing to do with me. You think my dad listens to shit I say when it comes to his decisions as an elder? I’m fucking sick and tired of you assholes blaming me and Becket every time the elders do something you don’t like.”
“Something we don’t like? They set our parents up to get captured and then refused to lead a proper search for them,” Valen counters. He brushes the loose strands of his dark brown hair out of his face and takes an angry step toward Enoch.
“Once again that’s not our fault, and once again no one knew about Elder Albrecht and what he was doing before tonight!” Kallan throws out, his tone fed up and tired.
“Please. It’s clear the apple doesn’t fall far from the fucking tree, Cleary. You took Vinna from our protection, where she was attacked, spied on like a fucking criminal, and threatened by your piece of shit dad that he would fucking expose her if she didn’t choose your coven over ours. You knew what she was the whole time, and you lied to her about it. And then when she wouldn’t give you what you wanted, you took it without her permission,” Bastien spits out venomously, and both sides press even closer together.
I scramble out of my seat and magic myself between them before the fists that both sides have clenched in anger start getting thrown. I pop up in front of Bastien out of nowhere. Which might