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Fuck.

Kingston rose right along with me, his arm around my shoulders, holding me close.

“Not you, Mr. Farrell. I assure you, your mate will be fine.”

He reluctantly released me, but by the set of his jaw, he wasn’t leaving me alone with her. He’d wait.

The headmistress beckoned me with a crook of her finger. With a heavy sigh, I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. “I’ll be fine.”

“But of course you will. How silly to think otherwise,” she said as I left a glowering shifter, curious witch, and intense demigod behind.

Their gazes weighed on my back as I approached Madame le Blanc. My neck prickled, and I glanced to the left where I spotted Caleb lingering in the shadows, his gaze locked onto me as well. It looked like our conversation was going to have quite the audience.

“Do we have to do this here?”

She waved a hand, and my ears popped as the air pressure changed. “There. No one can hear us. Have you forgotten something?”