Book 2: A Dozen Bites

Emory

I hear about Lex being sent off as a hostage at Scarlett Thunder from my maids after he’s already left. I don’t get the chance to say goodbye. Lex and I may not have started out on the right foot, but I still feel bad he’s essentially become King Peter’s prisoner. I want to talk to Kane about what happened but hear he’s in a meeting. I’m able to find Rainer who has a rare spare moment where he’s not doing something for Kane.

“Lex said it’s better this way,” Rainer tells me. “It would have been an awkward scene if he stopped to say goodbye to you, and Lex doesn’t find that entertaining. That chaotic little shit has a dramatic flair.”

“I still wish I’d had a chance to say goodbye to him. It’s not easy being a prisoner in a castle filled with your enemies.”

I understand that feeling more than anyone. Kane treated me more like an honored guest rather than a prisoner, but I was terrified when I first arrived at Castle Graystone. Even when Ka