"Christian-" "I said no way. End of discussion." I downed my drink and instead of fearing to get near, she made it very much clear how little she cared of my outburst. "You're not going in there alone." Pressing her palms against my chest so softly and gracefully, I thought I would fall to my knees and worship her all right then, but I managed to rather focus on my frustration from that outrageous suggestion of hers.. "Who said anything about going there alone?" She started her convincing, not caring about what her touch was doing to me in a room full of people. "I have an army of a pack to keep my back.. I can have the Vesntesovs on my side too." She nodded her head almost as if she was assuring herself. "That's the kind of numbers we need." With a simple step back, she turned around and walked back to the fireplace, kneeling down and throwing the flower of nothing other than wolfsbane she had took from near the house.. The flames costumed it and she seemed once again very much convinced in her own words. She turned around and confirmed her own words.. "And once Adam is well frightened and distracted, and the witches a bit bloody as well.. Perhaps that's when you guys come in with a spell to knock him out." "I'm very close to figuring out the spell for killing him." Calliope seemed to agree and I could tell that the others did too. "I'll need a day.. Two max." "Okay, good." And to that.. Oh there was much to say. "It's not good. I still haven't agreed to any of it." The disproval in my voice was clear, but I still couldn't quite control the fury that that new plan caused. Of course Dimitri would agree. He just wanted Amelia safe.. And so did I, but I was not willing to put anyone on display like that, let alone the woman that I loved.. Army or not, I was the only one that could keep her safe. With her, I trusted myself only, and so should she.. "If you come with me, Adam will instantly rise his forces against us.. And our point is to trick him, is it not?" I walked towards her with the need to give some piece of my mind about that, but Lana was quick to offer me the kind of smile that I could never really resist. "You can wait for a sign, somewhere near." I stared at her for a few seconds.. What was I to say? Lana was hard to convince once she had something on her mind. She had the kind of charm and compulsion over me that so easily made me agree to anything she said.. Just like she did when she wanted to include her family in all of it.. Just like she did with everything else.. All it took her was a simple flatter of those lashes, a smile or a damn touch to have me agree to whatever she said.. This however was dangerous. If she thought I was going to allow her to risk her life like that, she was very much mistaken. I was not ready to have her out of my sight after what happened that previous night, let alone let her enter that hellhole alone. And the look behind those greens was provoking me to the fullest.. She was- goodness, she was daring me beyond belief. She knew how little resistance I had for her when it came to arguments.. I had told her how much she caused inside me at such moments, how little control I had around her whenever she showed such certainty and braveness.. I saw the raw her and damn me, but I wanted to lift her over my shoulder and carry her to my room right then. "We'll discuss this later." Were the only sane words I found in that moment, hoping she would drop that damn subject before she dared me further.. I knew she could read me well, or perhaps simply understand me from my tone.. "Fine.." I heard her release a slight sigh and those wide eyes kept locked on mine until she decided to turn to Calliope and change the subject. "Are you sure you'll figure out the spell so quickly?" "Positive. There's no specific spell, that's why it took so long.. I have to mix it up myself and I'm not so sure it will all go so well.." "You'll do fine.." Lana added a slow caress over Calliope's arm as a support, and I was still very much frustrated that she seemed to act like she completely ignored my words when I told her to discuss it later. Her glance towards me was plain and clearly almost as annoyed with me as I was with her after she announced that stupid plan. "I should go now.. Before the guards grow suspicious." Amelia walked up and I could very much see that same worried expression reflected on her face as it was on mine, almost as if she knew just how stubborn Lana could get. She aware that magic had to be fought with magic and not an army of werewolves. But then again, I suppose women had more patience with one another, as for the rub Amelia preformed over Lana's back seemed almost supportive.. "I'll walk you out." I walked behind the girls, focusing on figuring out ways to explain to Lana just in how great of a danger she would be putting herself through if she provided that plan of hers.. I was the one driving her home, so we had quite some time to discuss that ridiculous plan she seemed so certain to go through with. "This house is still sealed, right?" It was Lana's question that showed that concern this time, and I could tell that she had started putting my safety before her own.. "It is.." Amelia answered, crossing her arms and observing how Lana reached for her jacket and started putting it on.. I glanced at Dimitri just to find him leaning his elbows on his knees as he sat, and looking at me the very same second, with that almost furious expression caused by clear worry.. It made me wonder, what in the world happened that now we couldn't even handle two women in our lives?