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Her expression turned bored. “I have my own room now, so I guess things worked out for both of us.”
And that was it. She walked away without another word, and I was left trying to understand what just happened.
I got to my normal table and sat in the open spot between Kaden and Niall. Natasha was involved in breaking the curse? Why hadn’t anyone mentioned that? How had they convinced her? What did they have to give up in exchange? My old roommate might have been generous to me, but I didn’t see that extending to the guys. Not without a price.
“Everything okay?” Sai asked from across the table, and I realized how much of this was, in fact, not okay. It was wrong. Very wrong.
“You’re over there,” I commented as I glanced around at the faces of my friends. “You’re here.”
Niall just shrugged and took another bite.
“And so are you,” I said.
Kaden smiled.
“We started eating together last week,” Theo explained.
“Yeah, we had to start saving two tables instead of one,” Malik complained.
“Like you’ve ever had to do it alone,” Travis, his boyfriend, teased.
Malik rolled his eyes before kissing him on the cheek.
“You guys got Natasha to help?”
Immediately, all eyes were on me.
“What did she tell you?” Niall lowered his fork.
“Just that she helped and wanted to see if I was okay, I guess.”
“I still can’t believe you did that,” Hannah glared at my guys. “It was stupid and dangerous and reckless. You had no idea if it would work, if she was even truly capable of that kind of magic, and you could have either killed Saige or gotten expelled.”
“Or both,” Daniel added helpfully.
“What did you do?” I looked from Niall and Kaden to Sai and Theo.
“We had her help us with a spell,” Sai replied.
Yeah, that wasn’t the full story.
“What kind of spell?” I pushed.
“A blood sacrifice,” Niall got to the point. “We each gave blood with the intent of sacrificing enough of ourselves to save you.”
Blood magic. That was why they went to Natasha. I knew she did some forbidden spells, but I didn’t know how deep into the dark side she went.
“It should have required all the blood of one person, but since we’re your mates, we figured we could split it,” Kaden explained. “And it worked.”
It did. Somehow, they bent the rules and made it work. Could it be that easy? They found a workaround to a spell that seemed a bit too convenient. I was awake. I was here. That was all that mattered. I wasn’t sure I wanted to know more.
Dread filled me, starting at my heart and spreading through my core to my limbs.
Panic.
Fear. No. Terror.
I closed my eyes as the vision took over.
