Chapter 50

“Can you believe it?!” Will said cheerfully “He was so afraid of it that they had it removed from the garden that night or he wouldn’t even sleep in the manor.”

Everyone bust into laughers at Will’s story and Azeph looked away from them to see Elinor who didn’t move from her spot since she sat on it earlier that evening. She had a book on her lap and she was spacing out staring at the same page for a while.

He locked eyes with Louis who was sitting on the other side of the room sipping his tea and stealing glances at her from time to time.

In a silent agreement Louis nodded slowly at him, then he looked away from him with his usual arrogant attitude back to staring into the fire.

It had been three days since the attack on Elinor. And since then a lot happened. The king’s investigators came up to the academy to question everyone and everything that could have led to the attack on Aira.

The king didn’t seem to care about the fact that he would make the attack public. The headmaster