Chapter 132: A Chat With Seamus

ALIAH

Heat scorched through her divided riding skirt, bringing Aliah back into Baron George's finest guest room. During her contact with Seamus, she had inadvertently wandered too close to the roaring fire warming the room.

'You did it.' Dominic's grin spread from ear to ear.

Absentmindedly moving back from the flames, Aliah sat down, still lost in her own thoughts.

'Hey, Aliah, you should be celebrating.'

Coming from afar, her tutor's words scarcely pierced her consciousness. Something disturbed her about the way she joined with Seamus, and she needed to figure out why.

'I could feel Seamus, and I was drawing towards him, but something prevented be from getting through. Perhaps a lack of magical power? Then … it was like a sort of bump … and we connected, and he flooded my mind. I was so surprised I dropped the connection.'

Angrily she turned to face Dominic. 'You helped me?'