Chapter 81

LUNETH Aria is discharged, and things are quiet. I don't like it when things are too quiet because it ends up being a way that Maljore can strike. All of the conversations between Maljore and Rose so far have been just pleasantries and jewels talk. It was almost as if they knew they were being watched and were putting on a show. "They would crack soon," Drexon said. I wonder how he felt knowing his mother could have a hand in this; she knew about it and just kept it to herself because she wanted to punish him. "I hope so," I said anytime we listened to the conversation recording that Tema had provided. Aria was doing better, although it was a struggle to go to school, but once she got in, she seemed to blend right in. "Why don't you go out and spend my money?" Drexon had said one morning when we were both getting ready for the day. "What?" "Buy a tonne of jewels and clothes and even a car if you want," he adds, and I shake my head because I don't know where this is coming from, and the