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“You’re right. I’ll talk to him once we are home.”

I jumped in his arms and wrapped my arms around his neck. My hug from excitement turned into kissing passionately which then turned into me being on my knees.

Like I said, I knew what to expect with Calum. I knew what he loved and what to do to satisfy him.

I plunged his length deep into my throat while keeping my eyes locked on his.

“Gods, I’ve missed you, Violet,” he said while he grabbed a fist full of my hair and began pumping into me.

Tears began to run down my face and just when I thought I couldn’t take anymore, he picked me up and threw me on the bed. He ripped my dress off and threw it on the floor. It was something he’d done more times than I could count, but this time my heart sank when I saw the beautiful dress I had just gotten in shreds on the floor.

Calum flipped me onto my stomach and inserted himself. He put his hand under me where he could rub me while he began thrusting. He had made everything else disappear from my mind and all I could think about was him.

“Yes, Calum! Yes,” I screamed as I felt my climax coming.

He finished shortly after me and rolled over onto my bed so he could pull me into his arms.

“Do you have to leave now?” I whispered while I lay with my head on his chest.

“Soon,” he mumbled while he ran his fingers through my tangled hair.

My heart sank, but I had to get used to it. This would be the new normal for a while. “Have you found out anything about what is causing Sebastian to weaken?”

His hand stilled, and I felt his chest tighten beneath me. “Sebastian? How do you know his name?”

Fuck. I couldn’t very well tell him the truth. “Bronwen and Adar were talking about him today, and I heard them call him Sebastian,” I said while I traced circles on his stomach.

He relaxed and said, “Oh. No, not really. I’ve been talking with a scholar from back home, and he says there must be an object that is drawing his power from him. Someone within the castle must have introduced the object because it has to be somewhere near Sebastian to be effective. But the object could be virtually anything from a pillow in the sitting room to silverware in the kitchen, so it doesn’t really narrow it down.”

“Oh,” I said quietly.

If Sebastian couldn’t figure it out with his shadows that hear everything, it seemed almost impossible that Calum would be able to figure it out.

He stayed with me until the early hours in the morning. I slept better that night than I had in weeks. I had grown so used to having someone else in the bed with me every night that the time without him made me realize how lonely the nights without him were.

“I need to go now, Violet,” he said, waking me up as he kissed my forehead and got up from the bed. “I’ll see you at breakfast in a few hours.”

“Before I left dinner last night, Sebastian told Bronwen to stop with the ‘family meals,’” I said as I sat up on the bed, pulling the sheet up to my chest.

“Well, then, I’ll be back here as quick as I can,” he said, giving me a soft smile.

“Okay,” I said as I fought back the tears.

We said our goodbyes, and Calum transferred out of my room.

11

Chapter 11

Violet

I had spent my entire life around the same few people and now I had been pushed into a place where I’d experienced more in the past few days than I ever had.

I had become so used to spending so much time alone that I now was exhausted by the things that had happened in the past few days. I was restless after Calum left so early, but I decided to spend the rest of the day in my room. Bronwen came about midday because a servant told her I didn’t come around breakfast time looking for food.

“The past few days have just been . . . a lot,” I said as I sat at the foot of my bed.

“I understand that all of this might be a lot to take in, but you can’t just stay in your room and skip meals. I’ll have a servant bring you some food,” Bronwen said as she jumped on my bed,making herself comfortable. My day of alone time had come to an end.

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