"Why so sour?" Kaelis asks, resting his head against the carriage window, his tone light like nothing was wrong. "Is it still because you argue with Helios?"
Ezra stiffened.
"How did you—" he starts, his eyes narrowing in surprise.
He and Helios had gone deeper into the forest. No one was supposed to hear that. No one was supposed to see that.
"It was a wild guess," Kaelis answers easily, like it didn't matter, like it was obvious. His hand comes up to rest on Lior's head, idly smoothing his hair as Lior sits on his lap, quiet for once.
'Wild guess, my ass.' Ezra thought, his jaw tightening. 'He probably followed us.'
But that didn't make sense either.
Kaelis had been with Lior.
Ezra didn't know which bothered him more, the idea that Kaelis somehow knew without being there, or the possibility that he had still managed to piece it together anyway.
Still, Ezra chose to believe Kaelis was just being a creep again.
It was easier that way.
