Vivian had already expected Greg to be popular. After all, he was a man even she was captivated by.
But she had never expected this Dragonfolk blockhead to say something so stupid.
"Did you just say he came here for you?"
Vivian looked at Juno as though a layer of frost had formed over her eyes. A dangerous gleam flickered in those ice-blue eyes, and even the surrounding air seemed to drop a few degrees.
Her long blue hair drifted gently in a breeze of magic power, making her look like an iceberg on the verge of erupting, beautiful and deadly.
Juno seemed completely oblivious to the chill and continued with a grin:
"Yep! I tried poaching him once before. I asked him to transfer to the Ember-Eyed Tower and offered him a pretty generous reward, so he must have changed his mind and come to give me his answer."
As she spoke, she gave her dragon tail a smug flick, the scales at its tip gleaming brightly beneath the lights.
For an instant, Vivian's expression stiffened almost imperceptibly.
With Ellie's guidance, she had already decided to stop trying to keep Greg all to herself. But she had never expected this woman to stoop to something as underhanded as poaching him.
She suddenly regretted not taking the opportunity to hit harder earlier and teach this brainless Dragonfolk woman a proper lesson.
Had she known what Juno was planning, that Ice Ring should not have merely bound her feet. She should have frozen her entire body into a block of ice, then stomped on it a couple of times.
But Vivian quickly forced herself to calm down. She took a deep breath, her uniform tracing the graceful curves of her slender waist.
Greg loved her, she reasoned, so there was no