Chapter 19
I MAGICKED UP A GLASS of water for her and handed it to her.
She chuckled before taking a sip. “I don’t know who your teacher was, Ava, but she was magnificent.”
Cold dread drizzled down my spine. “What do you mean?”
I’d told her the truth. My only teacher had been my mother. Was that what she meant, or did she think I’d lied and had been trained by someone else?
The veil that had hidden the Council dropped away and three people walked forward. Matlock, and two older women. Tavlor was still there, lurking in the background like he did.
The women were classically beautiful in every way. High cheekbones, great figures, shiny hair. But the one to the right of Matlock had a strength to her that the other didn’t. She had bright blue eyes and glossy black hair.
Despite their go
