Chapter 57
Xaero
“Well, that did not go over like we thought it would,” Avery remarked as he summoned chairs and a long table and platters of food for everyone, the king’s dry humor grating on my nerves. Nonetheless, I could not agree more. “She continues to blindside us all. I thought she would be happy.”
Meridian snorted as she took her seat and held out her tanned hand to the slight figure of the Keeper who sat gingerly beside her. “Pay up, missy.”
I sighed just as Caeldon was handed by Avery a tall goblet of, what I could only assume to be, blood. “You really bet on this?” he asked with a hint of reproach. “That woman has been through enough already.”
The red-haired queen rolled her eyes and ignored the hiss that came from the vampire. She talked as she piled on dinner on her plat
