Wicked All Night EPB

My grip didn’t loosen. “Take me there.”
She couldn’t have looked more shocked if I’d stabbed her. “I can’t. It’s forbidden!”
“Rules are made to be broken,” I insisted. “Come on.”
She screamed. Now I had the attention of everyone around us, too. I smiled through gritted teeth.
“Just a dispute between friends, people. Carry on.”
“Help me, she’s insane!” the woman shouted.
“I’m not. I just need to see the challenger—”
“Veritas.”
I whirled at my name. Ashael was several meters behind me, half hidden behind a thick stone pillar with a mural of Zeus painted on it.
I released her with a muttered, “Apologies,” before I strode over to my half brother.
“Take me to Ian,” I said as soon as I reached him. “I need to stop this. Do you know what will happen if he loses?”
“Yes,” Ashael said, yanking me behind the pillar. “And if I couldn’t talk him out of this, you won’t. Besides, if you’re caught interfering, it’ll be considered as cheating, and his life as well as yours will be forfeit.”
Anger and anxiety exploded in me. “Then why did you bring him here, let alone tell him how to issue a non-retractable, lethal challenge? I had the situation with Phanes