28 Chapter 28 - Poison in a Good Way

The room suddenly felt filled up with tension.

"You want to know how I won against the Little Performer a while ago?" She asked, trying to diffuse the tension.

Belladonna's reply was slow, like as if she was reluctantly pulling herself out of the state of mind Lady Kestra's words had opened her into. Her eyes still staring into Lady's Kestra silver ones.

"Ye-s?"

"He was a Cheat, so I useddddd...."

She moved her fingers along each other like as if she was catching air, her long polished red nails clicking together at the end of it.

"Magic," she ended with a raised eyebrow and Belladonna chuckled light-heartedly.

She was joking, right?

They left the Clothing Store after buying only one dress because she was no mood to shop and Lady Kestra understood that.

They would come back some other day, she believed there were some dresses she would really like.

The next place they went to was a bar.