Chapter 17
I WASN’T SURE IF I was allowed to harangue him like this. I knew he was High Warlock and he had a reputation to uphold. Would I be punished for speaking to him this way in front of Tavlor? “He helped me a lot. I was only joking about him kicking my ass.”
I glared at him and tried to communicate something along the lines of stop being so obvious, Dad.
Matlock nodded and shrugged my arm off. He glared – a warning to me. I wasn’t behaving properly. “I understand that you are not from our realm, Ava, but you’d do best to control yourself,” he said. “I am the High Warlock, after all.” He shifted his gaze so it rested on Tavlor before coming back to me. “I’m glad he helped you prepare for tomorrow, but as a warrior, he should not have gone anywhere near you.”
I looked at him with
