The Majors, Cold Fury (Book 2)

Chapter 70: Erin POV

When we arrived in the dining room it was filled with people. Why.

I recognized ALL of the other rulers. Honestly, it's not like they were crowding around my sickbed, why did they all feel the need to be here? Pix was there for god's sake. Pix. The weird dude who lives in the desert and tracks sand around the castle. I don't think I've talked to him much actually. He may be the one person here I don't completely hate- never mind, he tried to stab me with that trident, I do hate him.

There were several people, however, that I didn't recognize. One, who was the spitting image of Katherine, who I assumed must be her mother. Didn't know her name nor did I care. There were also three girls. The oldest looked my age, with long blonde hair, and bright blue eyes. She stared at me curiously as I entered, but immediately looked away when I met her eyes. There was another girl, even younger who hardly looked to be a teenager. She was practically a clone of the other girl. Then the last one, seated beside Katherine's mother. She couldn't be older than ten, and again she looked like Katherine and the old queen.

I quickly glanced away, watching as Scott went to sit beside Jimmy. I was annoyed. Scott threw the man off a cliff, yet they act like...they're together again? Ew. Out of spite I sat at the opposite end of the table, throwing both of them a glare. I half expected (or half wanted) Scott to move over here, but instead he rolled his eyes at me and stayed seated beside his 'boyfriend'. I didn't want to admit it, but it stung a little.

Instead, the wizard sat beside me. Not directly, she left a chair between us, but still. I narrowed my eyes at her. "What're you doing?" I growled.

"Nothing, what do you mean by that?" she asked, raising her eyebrow rather innocently, but I saw right through her.

"I mean why are you sitting next to me?" I snapped.

"Because it's an empty seat." She replied simply.

"There's like- a dozen more empty seats." I said, annoyed now.

"Yes, therefore if you don't want to sit next to me, you can move." She challenged.

"But you see I don't want to."

"And neither do I."

I gritted my teeth, giving her the most hateful glare I could before looking down at the table. Sure, I could move. But that would make me seem weak, and there was no way in hell I was doing anything to satisfy the wizard. I clenched my hands until my knuckles hurt around my pant legs, trying to ignore the conversations between the others.

But I felt a pair of eyes on me, as if burning through my skull with their gaze, and I forced myself to look up. I met the brown eyes of the old queen, and for a moment again I thought it was Katherine. She was staring at me, as if she were trying to fit me together like a puzzle to see the big picture. She didn't seem to approve.

So just to spite her, I smirked, leaning my elbows onto the table. She raised an eyebrow, before turning away. Mission accomplished.

I was taken aback as Gem took the plate from in front of me and began to load it with food. "The hell are you doing?" I asked.

"Getting you your food." Gem answered as if it were obvious, before sliding my plate back in front of me filled with a lot of different overwhelming things that looked way too nice to be at a casual dinner.

"You poisoned this, didn't you." I said, narrowing my eyes at Gem.

"No, I didn't. Someone would have saw me." She replied, returning my look before going to eat her food. I was slightly shocked, that she didn't even deny the fact that she would if no one was here...or maybe I just tend to look for the worst in people, who knows?