The moment I said that, I shut my mouth immediately in dread. What the f*****g hell? I had just baited him into it.
Lord Noah said, “Then you don’t mind if I check, do you, Alfie?”
Before I could make any move, Lord Noah snatched the hat off my head, and my hair tumbled and spilled down my shoulders, lying there about me in all its long, silky blackness.
A hushed silence descended over the room, and I felt like crawling under the table and hiding, so embarrassed I was.
I felt everyone’s gaze on me—hot and intense—like I was an alien who had just descended on the Aurora Realm, which wasn’t exactly that far off actually.
I turned my attention to Lord Noah and stammered, “It’s all your fault, my lord. You gave me that hair potion as a gift, and now look at what happened. If I hadn’t been
