Chapter 97

Cerys's POV

Valerius's face remained perfectly impassive as he replied to Petra.

"Bad temper keeps you from being bullied, little aunt. Don't you agree?"

His eyes-those obsidian, cold, Bram-wolf eyes-cut through the air like winter steel.

Even I felt the pressure of that gaze.

Petra visibly shivered.

A rush of old memories flickered across her expression, the kind a wolf tries hard to bury.

Was Va