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“Hey. I looked for you at breakfast,” I blurt without meaning to.
“Oh, I had a meeting with Professor Dunlop this morning,” she replies. “I should have messaged you about it, but I just got so nervous.”
“How did you manage that so quickly?”
“I emailed him yesterday afternoon after you gave me the banshee book hoping that he’d have some suggestions for me. I woke up this morning with a response saying that he had a free half hour during breakfast if I wanted a meeting urgently, so I took it.” The relief on her face makes it clear that it was the right decision.
“What did he say?” I ask.
“He’s letting me drop The Practical Applications Of Curses so I can take Familiar Training and given me the paperwork to allow me to have Thistle with me on the academy grounds. I didn’t even realise that was necessary, apparently, I’ve been breaking all kinds of rules by bringing her inside.”
“Because those are the only rules you’ve been breaking,” I quip, thinking of all our curfew breaking. I’m fairly certain there’s probably an academy rule about having sex in the classrooms too.
A blush rises to her cheeks. She reaches out and puts her hand on my leg. “I’ll breakthatrule with you as many times as you want.”
I don’t need a mirror to feel my eyes flare purple at the insinuation. “No regrets?”
“Not even a little one,” she responds. “Or maybe one.”
“Oh?”
“That there are other people in the room right now.”
I let out a bemused laugh. “I can see that one being a regret.”
“All right, class, settle down,” Professor Wainwright calls. “Before we get started, there’s just a housekeeping rule. It’s come to the faculty’s attention that some students have been using classrooms after hours. You’re reminded that not only does this break the rules with you being up and aboutaftercurfew, but it is not what classrooms are meant to be used for.”
Anja smothers a laugh and I look in her direction, only making it worse.
“Is everything all right, Ms. Greystone?” Professor Wainwright asks, giving Anja a look that I’m surprised she has in her arsenal.
“Sorry, I’ve got a feather stuck down the neck of my shirt and it tickles.”
“I’ll get it,” I say, leaning over and quickly making a feather appear by magic, pulling it out from behind her collar.
“Hmm.” The professor turns away and looks towards the board, not seeming convinced by Anja’s lie. “Today’s lesson will be about locking charms, though I think perhaps some of you could do with a lesson in when to respect them.” She starts to go over the lesson plan.
“For you,” I say, brandishing the feather to Anja.
“Thanks. I should have thought of a better lie.”
“It’s okay, I could work with this one,” I assure her. Though if she’d come up with something different, I might have struggled.
“Do you think she knows it was us?” She takes the feather from me, her fingers lingering as they brush against mine, sending a bolt of desire through me. I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to get enough of her.
“I don’t think so, or we’d have been in Professor Dunlop’s office for a very different reason this morning,” I assure her.
“Do you think they’d have expelled us?”
“I hope not, I don’t think Dad would be very happy about that.”
“My parents either. They were so excited about me coming here,” she responds, glancing at the front to make sure we’re not about to get in trouble again. Luckily, we seem to have gotten fairly good at covert conversations.
“Have you told them that you figured out what you are yet?”
She shakes her head. “It might not surprise you to know that when I got to bed last night, I collapsed into a heap and went straight to sleep.”
“Any dreams?” I don’t want her to have had more nightmares after everything we did to stop them.
