Nate’s POV
I know what you’re thinking. More secrets she kept from that poor boyfriend of hers?
I won’t deny that she’s kept a lot from me. And a lot of it has been difficult for me to accept once I found out. But this time, I was finally in the loop for a change.
In fact, it was my idea.
“He’ll never know the difference,” I told her as we approached her first set of Compulsion victims. “Silas, I mean. You’ll show up on the day of the battle with a whole bunch of loyal students at you’re back, and he’ll never know that you told them to follow you, rather than him.”
She was hesitant at first. She takes this whole high-ranking position seriously, and she didn’t want to risk anything by playing games.
But the more we discussed the truth about Silas and the Protective Society, the mor
