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“You sure you don’t want to leave it on the edge of my bed? Or better yet, slide it under my door so there’s no chance of running into me at all. You don’t want to risk me accidentally falling on your dick. Tell me, Caleb, why go face to face when you’re such a master of the written word?”

His jaw ticked as he clenched against whatever retort was on his lips. Then he looked away from me, his whole body tight. “Tonight at moonrise, the headmistress will be lifting the magic ban on Kingston. So he can shift and heal.”

My heart leapt. “She is? That’s fantastic.”

“Don’t get excited. It’s going straight back on him as soon as he’s done.”

“Maybe she shouldn’t be so hasty. Clearly this plan of hers isn’t working as well as she’d hoped.”

“That’s not for us to decide.”