The carriage slowed.
And with it---
So did Seraphina's breathing...
Pull it together!
She chanted to herself, trying – and failing – to not look in obvious distress.
Why?
You'd think it was because she was headed to her ex-fiancé's engagement party. But she'd had three lives to make peace with the fact that he loved her best friend more than her. In fact, she now knew that they were perfect together and hoped that they'd one day have a fairy-tale wedding with a romantic "and they lived happily ever after" attached in some footnote…
So why the discomfort?
Because across from her sat the Demon Lord, Kael'tharion Virex!
Calm.
Composed...
Infuriatingly unaffected!
Lord Kael'tharion Virex looked like he had stepped straight out of a fairy tale --- if those allowed for creatures that could destroy kingdoms before breakfast.
And looked like they were made for sin!
