Chapter 32: "His Excellency, The Senator."

I turn to face him and I speak frankly, “I intend to.”

I’ll deal with this like I'm dealing with one of the men in the office who thinks hounding me is a good idea when they know I'm married to their boss. My tone is stern, “I don’t know who you are, and I don't trust strange men. Thank you, for whatever this is you’ve done to the strange lights beneath me, everyone is avoiding me like the plague now.”

“Are you married?”

Instinct almost makes me say yes, but I hold myself back at the last moment. I respond a second later, “Yes.”

Something of an amused twinkle enters his eyes but I hold up my hand and show him Tieran’s ring, “It’s an unconventional kind of ring, I know. But it still signifies something. So beyond my unwillingness to entertain you with my presence, I’m also bound by duty not to.”

He smiles like he knows something I don't and nods, “Pardon my manners then, Antonia. I didn’t intend to make you uncomfortable.”

A jolt of shock goes through me but I hide it. He turns and