Chapter 26: "You've provoked people, Sophia"

“Well, are you going to tell her?”

I pause outside the door to my room and I hold my breath. Caelum’s low growl is what comes next and I can sense his displeasure before he even says it.

“I said I would tell her when the time was right.”

I barge in immediately and I cock an eyebrow at both of them as their heads snap to me, I ask,

“You’d tell me what when the time is right?”

Caleum’s gaze feels hot on me and it lingers for a while, it lingers for a long second, until he scoffs and looks away.

“Bold of you to assume you were the one being spoken of.”

I feel my anger peak immediately and I grit my teeth as I respond,

“So there’s someone else in your life at the moment you spent the whole night with?”

I don’t know why I say that, I just know it slips out of my mouth and it’s stupid the minute it does, I know it’s stupid and I wait for the jab, the snide retort that should come from Caelum at my half-wit statement,

Instead, I see something else happen.

Something strange.

Caelum stares at