The opportunity was too perfect to pass up.
Oliver constantly wanted happiness for me, and it was about time he took some for himself.
Turning back, I smiled, every lifted line a challenge.
“Prove it. Go tell Sam how you feel.”
Uncertainty flashed across his face before his eyes narrowed and he straightened.
“Fine.”
I knew baiting him would work.
Just not how much.
He strode out of the room in his boxers, purpose in every step.
My conniving smile dropped.
“You have no clothes on, Oli!”
He stopped, tilted his head as if considering it, then kept walking.
“Oliver! Is this really the impression you want to make?”
I shook my head when he rounded the corner.
Chapter
Twenty-Nine
Lucille
This morning, the doors had changed from the rune to Lilith standing beside two shrouded females. They wore the same long, skin-tight dresses and were branded with Lilith’s six-pointed star. Lilith had her hand gripped tightly around the female’s neck on the left, while the female on the right stood farther off to the side.
Were they the coven members she had talked about avenging? I assumed so. But what importance did the image have if they were all dead?
“What are you trying to tell me?” I murmured.
Entering the spacious library, I opened my mouth to call for Cato.
But he was already here.
“You’re late,” he announced.
Knowing no excuse or explanation would help my case, I resigned myself to, “I’m sorry.”
He gave me a sharp nod, then led me to my table. We both sat, and Cato gently moved a stack of books out of his way.
“Let’s review. Start from the top.”
I began explaining Somnivado, and he held up a hand to stop me.
“Do not regurgitate my words. Explain it to me as if you were talking to… the general’s second.”
Interesting choice.
“Are you saying that because you think Alexei’s dumb?” Or did he have some weird vendetta against him? I could totally see Alexei breaking the no-food rule with Cato’s books.
