The Rise of a Master: It Starts With Rejection

Chapter 723

If this hadn't involved Gerald's orders, even someone as playful as Averill would not joke about it. Felix had almost thought she was teasing.

"What do you mean, 'fiancée'?"

Averill seemed to anticipate his questions. "You lucky dog! Your engagement to Xena was arranged by Mr. Hoffman, Lady Nala through the Greenes, and this fiancée I just mentioned? It's arranged by your birth mother. Get it?" Felix exploded. "What the hell? Am I some kind of commodity? Everyone's just arranging marriages for me!"

Gerald was family, so that was different. But what gave the Greenes and Cordelia the right to do this?

"I don't know the details. But according to Mr. Hoffman, this fiancée of yours is seriously dangerous. He kept muttering about them sending someone. He doesn't know when they'll show up, but he wanted you to be prepared." Prepared for what? Felix refused to acknowledge any engagement except to Xena, especially after seeing how Nala would do anything for power. Thank goodness she and Yvonne had disappeared and stopped bothering him, or he would have been exhausted. "What's the second thing?"

To his surprise, Averill answered with a question, "How many Dragonspine pieces have you cultivated?"

pieces, Felix's power wouldn't have grown so rapidly-probably to levels that worried

nodded approvingly, like a

you reported the pieces you'd absorbed, he did something and discovered the remaining pieces aren't

be harder to find, but at

frowned. "Does that mean Mr. Hoffman wants me to find

primary duty was the engagement to Xena, but since you've officially broken up, that obligation is fulfilled. Nothing's more

fell silent. He had come to Gray City hoping

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now? His plan was almost complete. Just a little more time and he

can't collect the other four pieces within six months, he'll end

What?