It wasn’t like we weren’t having fun, we were having so much of it that we accidentally separated. I have a sneaking suspicion that I was ditched the second I failed to avoid the king. He was standing slightly behind a column, and nabbed me as I walked past. Ivy kept walking, and I didn’t blame her. I’m not even sure if she knew that I had been stopped.
“I see you’ve made an upgrade,” he said in a quiet voice, hand curled around my elbow and none too gentle either. It surprised me, he’d always given off the air of a push-over. It was certainly clear he let his wife walk all over him.
“Dinner certainly got interesting after you left,” I said, pulling my arm out of his grip. He had sunny blonde hair, and pale green eyes. All Fae, I’d noticed, had green in their eyes if not the dominant co
