Chapter 19“You’re trying to be the good guy and protect me. You think I don’t know? But get this. I’m big enough to care for myself.” Although not wholly sure of that, Jack refused to sound weak, despite facing the realisation magic existed in the world and not knowing a way to combat the possibility of such power being turned against him. No point expressing those fears when he wanted to win Brinley over, but the sentence had been a passing shot, a way to sting the man he cared about when Brinley shoved him out of his house with the gifts of cakes to take home.
Reluctantly Jack had exited the Holberton Hall and gone home. There, he spent too much time pacing and fretting, going over what he truly wanted, discovering he wanted a chance. Time for them to learn where this might go. As Brinl
