When Giselle left the chamber, she looked around for Vera and gave her a nod before heading off on her own. Vera responded with a polite nod of her own, and waited till Giselle had left before she gave Lex an especially wide grin.
"Lex Williams, you dog you. Look at you go, having a secret rendezvous with a pretty lady when you should be working."
Lex rolled his eyes. This was a new side of Vera he had not seen before, and he was thankful for that much.
"You know, someone could say the same thing about me meeting you here like this," Lex responded in an attempt to contain her enthusiasm.
"Oh please, I'm a spoken-for lady. I'm going to marry an Oolin, and everyone knows that. You and I are just work friends at best. But a silver-haired kick-ass ballerina, who by the way is very single, is a totally different story."
