Thalia's POVI couldn't help but smirk, and Kade saw it.

As I would expect, it didn't sit right with him and he tried studying my face even more.

"What's with the smirk?" He demanded.

Not a word left my lips, and this seemed to only make him more irritated.

After a few seconds of what seemed like an eternity of me combing through my memories just to make sure that I wasn't about to tell that man a bunch of nonsense, I was certain of the day that the rule was taught to us.

I was lucky to have ...