After dinner, I excused myself from everyone’s presence and decided to commit my full attention to checking on Max to see how she was faring. No one had seen any sign of her since her abrupt take-off from the dinner table this evening.
There was a large balcony entrance arched in embroidered crystalline ivory that led into a significantly sized courtyard. As the rest of the dinner party seemed to disperse, I made my way toward the courtyard.
“Tell me, do you think you’ll need any assistance finding your guardian?” Apparently, Dreyaz did not catch the hint that I wanted very little as possible to do with him. I turned to face him as he said. “It would certainly be my pleasure to guide you, princess.”
Arrogance hovered beneath the veil of his courtesy. I got the feeling that the counselo
