Chapter 35: Life is What You Bake of It

Sebastian's POV.

Beatrice starts with a story about Yuletide that I already know.

Winnifred Sanchez was the first to realize the magic used at Yuletide was different.

"What does that mean?" I'd asked when she showed up in my office late one night with Lucas as an escort.

"I don't know," she'd said, "yet."

After seeing what Beatrice could do at Canaries, I suspected she was something different from your average witch. She confirmed being a necromancer the night Lucas brought her to my office.

I'd planned to tell Winnifred and KingsGuard's top researchers, but then I went to Beatrice's apartment and dared her to work with me. It'd felt like a leap then, and it continued to push me, this undertow between us, to keep her secrets simply because they belonged to her.