My head shoots up and I look at her in shock. I hate to admit it, but that’s exactly what I was hoping to hear. I never dreamed she’d offer so quickly.
I open my mouth, ready to answer with an enthusiastic “yes,” but I stop myself at the last second.
Can I really imagine never returning to the sea again?
And what about the others? They’ll never forgive me if I break the spell without them.
“I want to,” I say slowly, “But I was cursed alongside my friends, and I want to break it with them too. It would be wrong for me to do that without them.”
“That’s strangely noble of you.” Drusilla says.
“I know,” I sigh, “I don’t know what’s happening to me.
“You’ve grown a heart,” she teases.
“And it looks like you’ve grown some balls,” I tease back.
She chuckles under her breath. “Yeah, I g
