My Most Precious Human

I panted heavily and my head was spinning. It took me a few seconds to comprehend my situation. Sariel kept looking straight into my eyes while stroking my hands with his long fingertips.

"You did well," he whispered and smirked.

He stood up, letting go of my hands. He certainly looked pleased while I stayed to wonder what had exactly happened. I looked around the courtroom. Almost half of the council members had their mouths open in a deep state of shock. The other half was calling out outraged statements towards the Adragnas. I looked at the defendants. I saw them restrained by the guards, writhing in a rage and sending me murderous glares.

"It's a trick! It's a mind trick! Duke Calvet made her say it or she made it up herself!" the ex-Marquess yelled, foaming at his mouth.

"W-what is going on?" I nervously grabbed Sariel by the edge of his sleeve.

"You said everything you recalled out loud," he said, shrugging as if it was a completely normal thing to do.

"I did… what?" I mumbled, still processing.

"The Marquess raised an important issue. How can we be certain that the whole testimony wasn't prepared in advance? Not to mention that we don't know who the other man from the conversation was!" Judge Connor called out while sending me a look of disdain.

Sariel chuckled as if the judge had said the exact words he wanted him to say.

"Shall we meet him then?" he asked, his face maliciously grinning.

"M-meet who?" Judge Connor muttered as if he had forgotten his previous words.

"The negotiator from Randall D'Apolito's pack, Brian Myers," Sariel announced loudly and snapped his fingers.

On his sign, the door opened, and Mr. Gotha walked in with another man in shackles. I gasped, seeing the same blonde-haired man I saw while recalling the night of the auction. Loud comments arose as Mr. Gotha dragged the prisoner in front of the judges' lodge. Henri Adragna enragedly gritted his teeth. It seemed obvious that he knew exactly who that man was.

Brian Myers didn't seem like he was tortured. There was no serious bruising on his body, and yet he was trembling in fear. I had never seen a werewolf terrified of anything, and this man seemed completely broken. He resembled a weak human. Was he really a werewolf? I tried to sniff his scent, but I felt almost nothing, except for his fearful sweat.

"Introduce yourself!" Mr. Gotha roared at the blonde-haired man.

"I'm… B-Brian Myers… from… from the Southern Woods Pack…" he mumbled.

"Who is your Alpha?" Sariel questioned.

He flinched at the sound of his voice. He acted like a mere coward. I had never met a wolf so stripped of his dignity.

"R-Randall D'Apolito," he mumbled.

murmurs. A smirk of satisfaction

nothing like a dog! Can we really trust Duke Calvet's words?! For me, it looks like he brought another dirty human in front of our Great Council!"

vampires couldn't smell him exactly like I couldn't. I gazed at Sariel, but his expression

that appears in less than one percent of the werewolf population. Their scents are almost undetectable. Since the vampire senses are highly sensitive, they

but he stood still while feverishly glancing at Mr. Gotha and Sariel, as if he was begging

the flashes of your memory?" Sariel asked me, pointing at

one negotiating with Thomas Dorwart," I said, looking Brian up

mouth, that weak wolf snapped. He jumped up, pulling out his claws, ready to charge

viciously in my direction, "How can

doing it. The last thing I wanted was to let all of those vampires know that I was the daughter of that man's Alpha. Nonetheless, I cautiously looked around, making sure that no one would like to ask what the prisoner meant. Fortunately, they couldn't care less

with our precious witness's truthfulness. A call for the leading judge to check it herself." Duke

what the process of checking looked like, and I genuinely didn't want my head to be put in the main

she fries my brain?!" I panicked inside

gazed pleadingly at Sariel, but he didn't share an

may see for herself if the witness is lying or not," he said

at

to protect me… It can't be true, can

I instinctively resisted, trying to release myself from his grip. Even though I knew

called out, my weak voice hardly

didn't even look at me. He dragged

your thing, and get over with it," he

she wasn't as eager to test me as everyone else in the room was. She

about it, Duke Calvet?"

ahead." His words rang in my

care so little for your

sounded like he was convinced that Sariel would never jeopardize my life just to prove something

Argent City's protector, I wish for nothing more than to punish those who betray our kind," he stated calmly, then looked at me,

body began to tremble. I realized that I could have been deceived by him in the most spiteful way. I did everything he needed me to do. He even hypnotized me and made me dig in my mind to find what he wanted. Now, I was no longer needed, and it looked like this was his way of abandoning me. The ends justify the means, and only then did I realize how foolish I was to

promised…" I muttered softly, forcing Sariel to look

glance at me or say a word. He just pushed me

sweety," the female judge whispered while placing her hands on

heart throbbed frantically. I prayed that it would be a single strike that would make me unconscious. I anticipated it coming for long seconds until I heard the female judge gasp. I cautiously opened my eyes. The