KADE
Marcus was in the armory sharpening blades when I walked in an hour later, after the fight with sera.
He looked up from the sword he was working on and the look on my face made him drop it. "Is it that bad?"
"She's angry."
"I can see that from the way you're standing there." He pointed at the bench across from where he sat, "sit down and let's talk about it."
I sat, the anger from earlier had turned into something messier, my frustration was mixed with confusion that I couldn't sort out. "She thinks I betrayed her by letting Cassandra come back in."
"Did you tell her beforehand?"
"There wasn't time to inform her, Cassandra showed up unannounced and I had to make a quick decision."
Marcus picked up another blade and looked it over, "so you decided without talking to Sera about
