Chapter 409: Round One: Results (3)
’Why is she looking at me?’ Hex wondered. He hid his feelings perfectly, though. She failed to read him by the way she narrowed her eyes briefly.
She averted her eyes quickly but not quickly enough. No one inside the arena was slow on the uptake. After hearing Sven’s marriage proposal and request for a reply, everyone focused on her. She, on the other hand, had her eyes on someone else.
Hex looked calm despite each and every single gaze inside the arena directed at him. His abnormally sharp senses even detected the various emotions hidden behind every gaze.
Some were filled with curiosity. He could sense them observing and studying him. The underlings rushing out, perhaps to gather information on him, didn’t escape his senses either.
Some eyes were filled with pride and congratulations. They were the fewest...and closest. Sterling and his posse and Hestia, of course, were grinning under the hundreds of eyes, relishing in the attention their team was getting. Hex nearly rolled his eyes on them. Didn’t they know their suggestive grins were worsening the look on Sven’s face?
That was another look he felt and even saw. They were few too. Limited to Sven and his wives. They were looking at him with unfiltered and unhidden anger. If looks could kill...Hex’s soul would have been obliterated.
"Ahum." Alhea coughed a little. It was soft and actually pleasant. But in the silence, it startled quite a few people inside the arena. The soft yelps and cries destroyed any sense of being subtle on their part. Like one, they all turned their faces toward Althea. Hex had never known that the simple movement of turning one’s head could make enough noise to hurt the ears. Now he knew.
How Althea had managed to ignore the crowd as if they didn’t exist and continue was beyond Hex.
"I agree with you that we need to collaborate as much as possible to survive the upcoming disaster, Prince Sven." Her melodious voice seemed capable of making everyone happy. Sven looked with a smile, at her, awaiting her response. He seemed hopeful.