CROWN OF VENOM AND VELVET

Reckless Defiance

Author: Vesper—Elsewhere

Reckless Defiance

[KAELIA BRYNN HALLOWAY]

My fists tighten momentarily.

Perhaps it is because of the confusion that the Seneschal has left me with— or it might be the anger that I was left alone in her presence to begin with that betrays my lips causing me to blurt in anger.

"I did not. I did not leave. I-I looked and you just weren't there anymore," I defend quietly, my heart still a soft beat within me, sitting