“No!” I snap, and all chatter in the room stops. Fuck. “Everything okay, Baron Ashwater?” Alix says, her eyes wide with feigned innocence. I grind my teeth. No, everything is not alright and I’m not even sure why. I have no fucking idea what’s wrong with me except that the woman sitting across from me is clearly sapping me of whatever shreds of sanity I didn’t lose in Dyaspora.
