I didn’t even have enough time to wonder what it meant. As soon as I tilted the bottle to pour, the neck of it broke, spilling wine all over the table, the dinnerware, and the Councilman.
Everyone stopped what they were doing when the Sapphire Councilman jumped up and yelled. He got tangled up in his chair, fell into me, and pushed me over with the broken wine bottle still in hand, dousing myself and the carpet around me in the deep burgundy liquid until it fell and broke.
I lay on the ground, unable to breathe, and everything happened all at once.
He had landed not far from me, right onto his butt. The overturned chair lay between us. His cold eyes quickly heated when he saw me.
“YOU!” He roared.
He jumped up quickly. I would have been quicker if I hadn’t still been stunned and horri
