CHAPTER TWENTY TWO Felene leaned against the wall as nonchalantly as she could. She definitely didn’t want to let Stephania know that it was the only thing holding her up right then. “Surprised to see me?” Felene asked, forcing herself to smile. “You shouldn’t be. What did you think was going to happen when you tried to kill me?” “Mostly,” Stephania said, “I thought that you would have the decency to die.” Felene’s smile widened at that. “Ah, that’s where you went wrong, thinking that I have any decency. If you’d waited a while longer before betraying me, maybe we’d have had a chance to find out.” Stephania made a face at that. “In your dreams, thief.” Ordinarily, Felene would have made a quip about all the things Stephania might have been doing in her dreams, but the truth was that

