The Mentor by Elin Peer

Author:Elin Peer [Peer, Elin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Just Tell him

Kya

“Kya, do you have a second?” Boulder asked with a worried expression.

When I nodded, he pulled me to the side and lowered his voice. “Did Christina say anything to you?

From a position in the kitchen, my eyes flew to Christina who already sat in the dining room, calmly talking with Pearl, Khan, and Archer.

“About what?” I asked.

“Something’s wrong and I don’t know what it is. She’s grumpy and she’s become really distant lately.” A ghost of pain flashed over his face. “I thought maybe you would know if something was bothering her.”

“She hasn’t mentioned anything,” I assured him.

Boulder shot a longing glance in his wife’s direction. “I think she’s getting tired of me.”

“I’m sure it’s nothing for you to worry about.” I deflected the subject and signaled that we’d better get back to the board meeting that was about to start.

“Magni is joining us from the East Coast,” Khan said and made a small nod to the hologram of his brother.

“Oh, hey.” I waved my hand at Magni and he raised his chin in reply.

“How are you doing, Kya? Is Finn taking his job seriously?”

“I’m safe and sound,” I told him with a smile. “How about you, are you doing a lot of talking?”

Magni gave an open-mouthed yawn. “It’s going to take a while to calm these fuckers down. Some of our countrymen believe we should have forced Pearl to follow our traditions. They feel cheated that they didn’t get a chance to win her in a tournament.”

“And now you’re giving them a chance to fight you instead?” I asked. “And how is that helping? Maybe what they need is for someone to educate them and make them understand that–”

Khan cut me off. “Why don’t we focus on the school business for tonight? I don’t remember asking you for advice on how to run my country.”

“Maybe you should,” Pearl said softly and gave her husband a smile.

“I want to know what the situation is with William,” Khan said, ignoring his wife’s provocation. “Will he be scarred from his burn wound?”

“There will be some scarring, but he has healed really well and even gained popularity because of all the sympathy from the kids and also because the fish skin on his hand made him look like a mutant,” Archer said.

“That’s good, and what about the division? Is it still boys against girls? Any more pranks?”

“We got it under control,” Archer declared.

“The thing that worries us the most,” I said, “is that the Nboys still look down on the children from the Motherlands. It’s like they lack fundamental respect, and I don’t know how to explain it except that they seem to think that male is better than female.”

Quiet glances were exchanged between the men in the room, and if I had been braver I would’ve called them out on it. Luckily, I didn’t have to; Pearl did it for me.

“That’s because boys here are raised to believe they are superior to women, isn’t that right?” she said in a calm voice.

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