If looks could kill, Orpheus would have buried his second-in-command a thousand times by now.
He didn't appreciate the man encouraging Lady Karina, not that he had any qualms with purchasing anything for her; it simply didn't sit well with him that Lyall was becoming too familiar with his lady.
"I approve of the way you think, my lord," Lady Karina answered Lyall, addressing him exactly the way Orpheus forbade her to.
He could see in her eyes that she'd done it deliberately, and oh, how he would punish her for that in due time.
"I wasn't aware that you were interested in ladies' garments," Orpheus said, shooting Lyall a deadly glare that had the man holding his hands up in mock surrender.
There was nothing further said, but Orpheus was very much boiling on the inside. And then it wasn't long before the three of them, along with the other two knights, departed from the tavern and made their way onto the main avenue of the town.
