Chapter 75 | Conversation Flows

Amelia

This is awkward.

Penelope and Donovan sit across from us and we all stare at one another awkwardly, having no idea where to start with all of this. Yet, we all know that it would help our bond be stronger if we attempted to have a relationship with one another.

Penelope says, “How about we start with something easy? How did you two meet?”

Maven looks at me with a playful smirk and I know that he’s letting me take the lead. Do we talk about the first night I saw him and helped him even though I didn’t know his name?

Or is the first true time we met after he saved me from the hands of the elders?

I say, “Well, I was new to town and was in my cottage when there was a knock on my door. Maven stumbled in, injured, and he passed out. I didn’t even know his name, but I helped him recover. I left because I didn’t want him to know who I was… but it didn’t matter. Later the next day some of his Elders found me and called him in. They wanted to punish me because I had been exiled from my