CH65

Tonight wasn’t even halfway done and already I was exhausted. Learning Kain was being blackmailed into an arranged marriage, and then finding out I was supposed to be taking over his spot as the company’s most popular entertainer? It was all too much! I floundered my way back to Skyler as soon as I had found her again. It had annoyed her when I had ‘dumped’ her, but as soon as she found out the (singular) reasoning behind it; me being introduced to the Sponsor as Kain’s protegee; she quickly forgave me.

I did not mention the blackmail. That was not something anyone else could ever learn.

“Ah! I knew there had to be some reason! But to never once tell you!? I’m so surprised! I would have thought he would have said something sooner!” Skyler said as she took my hands into her own and was shaking them up and down to congratulate me. “All the personal lessons, all the events you got dragged to, it all makes sense now!”

I offered a nervous la