Chapter 29
“I’m surprised you’re still with him,” said Simmonds, the voice finding Dane in the darkness.
Everything rushed back to him with sickening suddenness: the magic, how it overloaded his senses when it merged over him. He didn’t want Simmonds to know he was coming to so he said nothing, made sure not to move.
“Are you making me an offer?” asked Sean. He sounded tired, and annoyed. “Because you don’t look like you’re as good in bed as he is.”
“Please. I’m trying to understand why an intelligent man such as yourself—a professor, even—a witch from a line of problem solvers, would see anything in a barely-talented Decrypter.”
“You know what’s interesting? When I talk with other witches, they’re more interested in my mother’s side of the family, or both sides. Everyone else focuses
