The entire room fell into an uncomfortable, suffocating silence.
I winced inside, burying my face a little deeper into my palm as the weight of dozens of eyes slowly shifted across the room.
The guy who asked the question was near the front, some noble kid whose name I couldn't even bother to remember. He was staring up at the podium with real, honest curiosity, completely clueless about the huge trap he had just stepped into.
You bastard, I cursed at him in my head. Of all the questions you could have pulled out of your ass today, you had to ask that one?
Slowly, like everyone already knew what was coming, heads started turning toward our section.
Alice leaned back and glanced at me sideways with a smirk that practically screamed he's talking about you. Even Roan let out a faint, dry breath and shifted in his seat as quiet whispers began to ripple through the back rows.
