"I heard," Ashavar said, his voice dripping with amusement, "you want to marry my daughter?"
Tsk.
Of course he had to show up.
Honestly, Ashavar never got involved in his children's personal lives.
Everything about them including politics, upbringing and responsibilities was handled by their maternal families.
So I absolutely did not expect him to appear here… just to check on his emotionally unavailable murder-daughter.
And judging from how stiff Morvana looked, she definitely hadn't told him about our little talk about the future.
Which meant I still had plausible deniability.
Worst-case scenario, I could just bullshit my way through it later and blame the Trickster, blame cosmic interference, blame bad soup, whatever worked.
But not now.
Right now, I have to stay in character because Morvana was there.
