"Mr. Lumin, are you single?"
For a moment, my brain simply refused to process the words. A foreboding spiked through my chest.
Suppressing it, I shook my head slowly.
"No. I'm married."
The chief's single amber eye didn't waver. She glanced at Uru'en, then back to me.
"Are you happy with your wife?" she asked, her tone deceptively casual. "Don't you want to change her?"
My sense of dread doubled.
'I hope it's not what I think it is.'
I forced a polite, thin smile.
"I'm very content with my life, thank you."
"Are you sure?"
Uru'en's voice came from beside me, slightly different this time, almost soft and soothing. I turned to see him pulling the bone mask away. And when he did...
"!"
My internal world tilted.
The face revealed was… not what I had imagined.
Sharp, elegant features. A straight nose, high cheekbones, and those same molten amber eyes, now framed by long, dark lashes. It was a face of striking, almost delicate beauty. It was, without a doubt, a woman's face.
