Mira Pov
The woman didn't give me much time to think.
The second she finished speaking, she started walking, and one of the guards stepped aside to let me pass. It wasn't exactly an invitation. More like the kind of situation where everyone already expected you to move.
So I did.
Mostly because standing there arguing wasn't going to change anything.
My heart had been beating too fast ever since she mentioned the private review.
The words kept replaying in my head as we walked.
Someone important requested to see you.
The fact that she wouldn't tell me who that someone was made everything worse.
The corridor behind the auction hall felt different from the others I'd seen. Quieter somehow. The noise from the stage still reached us, but only faintly now, like hearing music through a
