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“Is that for you to decide?”
“When did you ever tell me you were interested in magic?” he countered. “I have only heard about how you do not have any and your fear that I will not love you without it.”
I glared.
“Does this mean you have warmed to the idea of learning magic?”
“We do not have a choice,” I said, still frustrated. “Can you battle magic?”
“You know the answer,” he said, unamused. “How did you find it?”
“Ana brought me here,” I said. He did not seem surprised by that either. “Were you aware that she has been practicing magic?”
“I wasn’t…unaware,” he said. “But I never told her I knew.”
“What else do you know that I should also know?”
He raised a brow. “I could say the same for you. Did you not find all this out and keep it secret?”
“I am telling you now,” I said. “As I always intended.”
“I could say the same.”
We stared at one another in tense silence.
“You never told Ana you knew of this place either?”
“No,” he said. “But she is watchful.”
I thought it odd that he did not say curious instead.
“Do you trust her?” I asked.
“To an extent.”
“And what extent is that?”
“Ana has her own agenda,” Adrian said. “It does not always align with mine.”
“Are you worried she is working with Ravena?”
The thought had crossed my mind in the direct aftermath of Ravena’s attack, but that had only been because I was surprised by Ana’s magic. Since then, I had come to realize that she was only curious. Besides, she had been adamant about not being used as a weapon, and any alliance with Ravena would make her just that.
“No, even if she had betrayed us before, her loyalty would have shifted after Isla’s death.”
“And that does not concern you?”
“Not as long as she remains useful,” he said.
There was that word again—useful.
“You do not like my answer,” he said.
“I cannot easily forgive betrayal no matter how useful someone seems.”
Adrian chuckled and took a step closer, hands coming up to cup my face.
“If it helps you obtain your greatest desire, then you will learn,” he said and bent to kiss my forehead. My face warmed as his lips touched my skin, and when he pulled away, I stared into his eyes.
