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I shook my head slightly. Perhaps he wasn’t attracted to me.
I wished that were the case.
Unfortunately, I knew better. I’d seen how he looked at me the day before.
My focus shifted to the plate of barely touched sliced meats and fruits in front of me. Kolis hadn’t even held me all that tightly throughout the night. Not like Ash. Not even like he had when he hadn’t intended to—
I didn’t want to think about Ash and sharing a bed with Kolis. My palms dampened, and I wiped them on the napkin. I didn’t want those two things to ever occupy my mind simultaneously. Because despite nothing occurring last night, I still felt…gross.
Gods, I didn’t want to think about that either. I focused on Callum. He was still entertaining himself with the dagger. I had more important things to dwell on. Like whether Rhain had been able to communicate anything to Aios.
I reached up, touching the delicate silver chain encircling my neck. When the Chosen woke me as they entered the chamber, I’d discovered that Kolis had left something for me on the pillow his head had rested upon.
Aios’s necklace.
I hoped I had a chance to return it to her.
I would.
I truly didn’t believe Rhain had been attempting to find me. He was loyal and brave enough to risk his life for Ash. Not for me.
“You’re quiet today,” Callum commented.
“I forgot you were even here,” I lied. It was impossible not to know he was there as he snatched the dagger out of the air just before the blade was about to sink into his chest.
“That hurt my feelings.”
“Uh-huh.” I pushed from the chair and rose. “I learned something yesterday.”
He tossed the dagger again. “That you’re capable of whoring yourself out to get your way?”
My eyes narrowed, and I didn’t think about what I was doing. I just did it as a ripple of hot anger swept through me. The embers throbbed as my gaze flipped to the dagger rising into the air. I pictured it speeding downward, faster than gravity would take it, straight for his eye.
And what I saw became my will.
The dagger had just flipped above Callum when a burst of energy left me. The blade jerked a foot to its side and then fell with the speed of an unleashed arrow.
“Fuck,” gasped Callum as he rolled. His knees hit the floor a heartbeat before the dagger slammed into the arm of the couch where his head had been resting.
He whipped toward me.
I smiled sweetly at him. “Careful there, Cal, you might hurt yourself.”
“Don’t call me that.” Glaring, he rose. “What did you realize?”
“I learned that I wasn’t in Cor Palace.”
“It took you that long to realize that?” He yanked the shadowstone dagger free.
“How was I supposed to know I wasn’t there? What I’ve seen of the grounds reminded me of the palace.” I watched him take a swig of his drink. “I know I’m still in Dalos.”
“If you didn’t know that, I would have grave concerns about your intelligence.”
I arched a brow. “Where am I, exactly?”
“You are at the Vita,” he said, sheathing the dagger to his hip. “It is a sanctuary built by His Majesty, replacing the existing Council Hall.”
The Council Hall in the Shadowlands was in Lethe, an amphitheater holding a second set of much larger thrones. If the Council Hall was the same as the one in the Shadowlands, then that meant…
