Sebastian
“Lane likes the girl.”
Adrian was staring out the window of our guest room, overlooking the vast, crowded garden below. I hadn’t any idea what piqued his interest so, and I didn’t care to ask.
He turned to me, irritation written in his brow. “That’s why he didn’t want to hand her over. Makes sense now.”
I had noticed, too. There was little Lucas could hide from me. Perhaps we weren’t close, but I knew him from the inside out. And I saw the way he reached an arm around that girl any time Adrian was near. How he sat beside her and no one else. How he glanced to her from time to time when he thought no one was looking.
But it was none of my business. And I couldn’t have cared less.
My only intention here was to find the entity behind this auction—to locate the wizard and insur
