I remained beside Caius, dutifully staring down at the Arena as the next group came out to fight while my mind was completely filled with thoughts of Jax and whether he was OK.
I wanted to see him, and I needed to know that he was going to make it.
Caius leaned close to me again and I shuddered this time. I didn’t want him near me right now.
“We’ll go down to the barracks after this fight.”
I turned to look at him with my brow furrowed.
“Why? I didn’t think you wanted…”
“…I didn’t want you running after him like you were about to. Everybody is watching us, and you’re the one who saved his life. If you ran after him the entire Empire would have been talking about how my beautiful new confidant is f*****g my fighters while I am away.”
It wasn’t entirely unreasonable of him, and I coul
