Further, she should not worry about a future that had not yet been decided then strained to listen some more but voices had dropped to a whisper as did their music, and she could barely hear it.
What had they discovered?
“Oh, I wish one of them would just come and tell me so I do not have to wait in suspense.”
“What?” Cassian asked, his voice was still heavy from slumber.
“I am sorry. I did not mean to disturb you.”
“You did not.”
She suspected that he was just being polite but since she could not hear his music, Samantha had no idea if he spoke the truth.
“Do you know what time it is?” she asked.
“No. I will go find out and bring some tea or water.”
“Thank you.”
He started for the door and just as he was about to exit, she called to him.
He paused and turned around. “Could you also find out if they have learned anything else or have an answer?”
He smiled, his silver eyes warming. “Of course.”
She hated when he was gone, but she should not expect him to be by her side constantly.
Which meant, if the witches could not find a way to free her, she would somehow find a way to free Cassian.
With that thought, she went in search of pencils or a quill and ink then something that she could write on. Except, she would need to be very careful in her use of anything found as there would be a very limited supply and she might be stuck in here for years.
Chapter 30
As promised, Cassian stopped by the magical vault on his way to the kitchen. “Have you discovered anything new?”
“Our search would be much easier if the catalogue of items, curses, enchantments and magic was complete,” Eugenia complained instead of answering his question.
“Why Samantha and nobody else? If the room has been here for as long as you believe, why wasn’t it already discovered?”
“We do not know why it chose Samantha because the piano seeks to punish someone who has broken a heart.”
That had already been explained to him.
“But that is not all,” Lady Chandos added. “It also seeks out troubled hearts.”
“Hearts?” Cassian demanded. “Has it claimed a person before?”
“There were at least seven attempts that we know of,” Eugenia answered. “It was the reason the piano had to come here in the first place.”
“Why would it affect someone with a troubled heart? That is what the warlock had suffered, wasn’t it? Or had he only been angered because he had been rejected?”
“It is believed that his tangled emotions, the broken heart and being rejected, might have mingled with the intentions of the curse so that those who have broken a heart can never love again and those with a troubled heart, such as his own, would be innocently caught up in the curse.”
Troubled hearts?
Cassian’s stomach churned with the very idea that if he had just given in to his desire and placed his lips against hers, Samantha would not be trapped right now.
If only he could have just…what, professed his love? She had wanted a kiss. He wanted so much more when he had nothing to offer in return.
