My heart sank as Rin’s words hit me.
The Emperor.
The man I had only met once but despised more than anyone I had ever met in my life.
“Are you sure? Perhaps he meant somebody else? He hasn’t requested Xena’s company for a while and..:”
“...Talia.” She spoke my name so sternly that I was silenced. “He wants you to go to see him tonight; he made that perfectly clear. In fact, he has made everything about your engagement tonight clear and I am afraid we will have to spend today running through everything so that he is not upset with how you behave.”
I groaned.
“Seriously? He’s asked for me - that’s what he will get. I won’t change my behavior for a man who was more interested in my n*****s than my intellect.”
“Talia, you will do as you are told or you will no longer be welcome in this
