Of Curse and Covenant: A Reverse Harem Academy Romance (Arcane Arts Academy Book 0) by Elena Lawson

Author:Elena Lawson [Lawson, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-23T05:00:00+00:00

5

Alistair had retreated further and further into himself all week. I tried to bring him out of his dark shell, but it was no use. He pretended to listen to me when I blathered on to him about what I planned to write for my English lit essay. He pretended to be with our group at lunch when we ate, but he wasn’t there, not really.

He was somewhere else.

Twice more between Monday and Friday I’d caught him scribbling away in his journal, his fingertips stained with ink, and looking more and more calloused by the day. I was starting to doubt he’d come out of it.

Especially since when I asked him about Dolores—a last-ditch effort to get some form of emotion out of him—he’d regarded me as though he had no idea who I was even talking about before he muttered something about how he meant to see her this weekend and don’t talk about her here—it’s not safe.

As though I was putting the mortal in danger. Ha! What a laugh.

“Dear, could you pass the Chronicle?”

“Hmmm?” I replied to my father as I finished slicing my apple into perfect little uniform half-moons.

“The Chronicle Diana, it’s there on the counter.”

It was Saturday and I was sad to find my parents seemed to be staying in this weekend. Even worse since Alistair told me he’d prefer to spend the weekend alone when I asked if he wanted company over at the Abbey. I could go visit Nico in the boathouse, but after I’d snuck him of the house last Saturday, I hadn’t seen him. And things between us felt tense and awkward that morning after we’d slept together.

We’d both been a little drunk, just like the last time it happened. But unlike the last time, this time had seemed… passionate? Was that the right word? No, maybe… romantic?

I shook my head at the confusing thought. Why couldn’t there be manuals for each person and you could just read them and know what they were feeling. What their motives were. Like textbooks. You could study textbooks. And then you’d know the content.

People weren’t like that, though. People were much more complex.

“Right,” I replied, clearing my throat and wiping my hands on the dishtowel folded atop the counter.

I turned to find Ma’s familiar, Tulip the King Cobra slithering up onto the countertop. She lifted her head in that sharp, jerking movement of hers, making me flinch. Ugh, I hated Tulip. She hissed quietly in my direction, baring her pale yellow belly to me, looking for a pet.

She was certainly barking up the wrong tree. “Shoo,” I said, motioning for her to get off the counter. “Go on.”

I snatched up the Arcane Chronicle, and drew the sigil in the air over top of it to open it. “Aperio Incicium,” I breathed, speaking the simple incantation that would reveal its contents. The ink bloomed over the parchment, forming itself into tiny little words and boxed articles all sandwiched together.

Too many witches didn’t have the money to live like we did, in a big house away from mortals.

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