Cassandra's POV
"I said I am ready. Are you going to keep staring at me like I just told you the sky is green or are you going to say something useful?"
Sebastian leaned back in his chair and looked at me with that infuriating calm he wore like armour, the kind that made you want to throw something just to see if anything underneath it would crack.
He had been quiet for a full ten seconds since I walked into his study and said what I came to say, and every one of those seconds had crawled across my skin.
His hazel eyes moved over my face in that slow, assessing way of his, like he was reading something I had not given him permission to read, and the worst part was that I could not tell what conclusion he was arriving at.
"I heard you," he said finally, his voice low and entirely too c
