Book 3 Chapter 48: Every fight needs a beautiful woman in the audience
Dantes landed on the roof of the vixen, and made his way to Jacque’s and Alessa’s rooms first, Jacopo deciding to head to the garden to eat something while he checked on them. Everything in the rooms had been packed and moved, which Dantes found relieving. The plan was to hide them and a number of the other more vulnerable people from both the Vixen and Midtown in his gambling den. It could be entered from both the basement door with a magic key, or in the Guild district, but that entrance was heavily concealed and barricaded.
Relieved, Dantes walked to his own chambers, where he found Sevryn waiting for him with a smile. She was wearing chainmail with a sword on her hip and several javelin’s secured at her back as well as a dagger on her belt. Her arms were unarmored, which he found strange, but stranger still was the fact that she was still wearing the gold necklace with the green stone.
“I asked that you be taken to the gambling den, so that I would know that you’re safe,” said Dantes as he forced himself not to return her smile.
She shook her head and stood, placing one hand gently against his face. It felt warm, and he resisted pushing his face into it.
“Every fight needs a beautiful woman in the audience, don’t you think?”
Dantes wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close, kissing her deeply as he did so. They stayed together like that for a long time, feeling the warmth of one another and hearing the jingle of the chainmail between them.
“Syn,” said Dantes, gently rubbing her face with his hand.
She smiled, her eyes shifting color from purple to blue, to gold, and back. “I’m surprised it took you this long to figure it out.”
“I suspected for some time, but I was having fun playing the game with you.”