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She pouts and crosses her arms. "Maybe I'll learn just to check if you're telling the truth."
"Be my guest," he says. "I really don't mind if you do."
"But my magic stopped working right as soon as I came to Grimalkin," I say.
"Did you eat or drink something within the first couple of hours?" he asks.
"I guess so." I frown, trying to recall. "Honestly, it was such a busy day it's hard to recall."
"The spell that backfired was at Caspian's party," Daphne reasons. "But he wasn't at Grimalkin at the beginning of term, so unless he's working with someone, it's not him."
"Great," I mutter. Just when I'm starting to think I've met a nice guy, he not only doesn't tell me things, but he might have cursed me too. I should become a nun.
"I don't think it's him," Daphne says. "Just reasoning it out."
"Is there anyone who doesn't like you? Could they be the one who cursed you?" Thomas asks.
There's only one person at Grimalkin that loathes me with a passion. But it couldn't be...
Had Ivy cursed me?
To be continued...
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Excerpt: Second Time’s A Curse
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I try not to look over at Ivy too often, but I can't help myself. It's hard to tell if someone's cursed you just from looking at them. She has the ability. She's not as high up the class ranks as Daphne is, but she's also not dim.
More importantly, she has the motive. Ish.
"Eurgh." I run my hands over my face, tangling them in my hair.
"You okay?" Ryan asks.
"Sorry, where were we?" I'm not going to manage much tutoring if I'm fixating on my potential worst enemy.
"You were telling me about the uses of frog spawn in potions," he prompts.
"Are you really doing so badly that you need my help, or is this Daphne's way of matchmaking?" I blurt out.
Ryan blinks a couple of times before setting down his pen and turning to me. "I'm really doing badly in potions," he promises. "BUt you think Daphne is matchmaking?" His smirk tells me more than he thinks it does. This isn't a worried man thinking his sister is overstepping, this is someone who...
I gasp. "You really do like me like that." I don't mean to say the words aloud, and yet they're out in the open. What do I even do now?
"Really, Mona? Was tha tever in question?"
I open and close my mouth, not sure how to respond to that. "It was in my head," I say eventually.
He waves away my concern. "It harldy matters now. You're seeing that guy..."
"Caspian and I haven't spoken in weeks," I admit sheepishly. I never intended to leave it that long, but I'm still not over the fact he's Ivy's step-brother. I can't reconcile that fact and the way I feel about him in my head. Though I know I need to sort it out for both of our sakes.
"Is that so?" he wiggles his eyebrows, reminding me of Daphne.
