Chapter 0454

Luca and I fly through the halls of the castle and I have to laugh a little, because there's something fun and exciting about rushing around with my hand warm in my mate's. Luca, feeling it too, sends me a grin over his shoulder even as he moves fast, even as I can still feel his anxiety at facing my father again thrumming in his heart.

I send him a little pulse of love and support as we arrive at the door where our meeting is apparently going to be held and Luca, grateful, gives my hand a squeeze. We slow and Luca raises a hand to knock on the wood when suddenly it opens and, to my shock, a familiar person steps out. "Tony!" I say, my face bursting into a grin at the boy I saw every week in magic class last semester. "Hi, how are you? It's good to see you!" My heart swells with warmth to see him and, as my eyes sweep over his tall, lanky figure I'm surprised to find that I'd missed him. "Oh, hey, Ari," Tony says, giving me a distracted smile and glancing again over his shoulder. "Um, are you going in there next? Do you...did you know that the meeting is with... the King and the Queen?"

"Um," I say, giving a little shrug. "Yeah?"

He returns his eyes to me with a frown. "Oh, I forgot they're your...aunt and uncle, right?"

"Yeah," I say, a little awkwardly, reminded again that we need to bring Tony into the loop a little more. Tony returns his eyes to me and then blinks rapidly, leaning away a little as if in surprise. And then he frowns, glancing back towards the room - towards the Queen inside who looks, I'm very aware, exactly like me.

laugh a little, seeing him put the pieces together and I quickly hope that we have time

as he drops my hand

Tony says, focusing on Luca for the first time and reaching out to shake his hand.

hands warmly and I frown between

eyes drift over Tony as he slips his hands into his pockets. "How

- we agreed to keep it a secret. And as I look up at Luca with a frown I realize that...well. That he might not know...anything about any of it. I

I wrack my brain, trying to remember. I mean, I know that I promised not to tell him Jackson's magical gift

Luca turns

slip away. "See you in class, Ari!" he calls, waving

Tony!" I call after

on?" Luca asks me, stepping closer, looking down into my face. "How do you...how do

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