Chapter 99

Quinn

“I don’t want you to make that promise to me,” I said to my Troy.

“I have to,” he replied. “It’s the only way I’ll stay. I’ll force myself to stay because I keep my word. I think it’s my only redeeming quality.”

“Shut up,” I said. “It’s not.”

A dubious smile quivered around his lips. Troy let me go and got up to sit next to me. “You said Sebastian was afraid of you?”

I nodded and put my head on Troy’s shoulder. He stiffened as if he suddenly didn’t like to feel me against him, then relaxed and rested his cheek on my crown. “At least that explains why he went…goes after you. If he thinks you can cast such a powerful spell before you’ve even matured, he’ll be under the impression that you’ll go feral the moment your powers manifest fully.”

“Do I go feral?”

“No,” he said. “It did…it will overcome you the first night, but from what I’ve seen, you keep your sanity.”

I snorted loudly. “Can’t be.”

“Why not?”

“No sane person goes to Fionn Bailey out of their own free will.”

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