Chapter 138 Cruel Games

• [XENA]
• I wonder, briefly, foolishly, if Knox would change his mind. If I told him—if I said Davina’s name out loud and told him what she did, what she made Eryx do—would it matter? Would it change anything at all? Or would he look at me the same way everyone else does and decide I deserved it because I dared blame it on her?
• He may not like Davina the way I once thought he did, but that doesn’t mean she holds no place in his world. She does. In the Guild. In the palace. In the order of things that matter. She carries power and authority—things I have never possessed. And Knox… Knox respects that. He must.