From a distance, Nadia and Delphine stood watching the whole conversation unfold between Sianna and Jax. They'd been studying the pair from the very start, right up until that barbarian came crawling in and interrupted them.
Delphine tugged at her own hair in pure confusion as she watched the two of them chatting away like it was nothing. It refused to make sense.
Her strict, stone-faced mother, holding a casual conversation with a man, and a commoner at that, without a single flicker of disgust. She wasn't even losing her temper at Jax being dramatic all over the place.
She'd even caught a smile once. A tiny one, lasting barely a millisecond, ghosting across her mother's face right after a panicked Jax said something to her in the wake of seeing the barbarian's state.
