Chapter 93: "We need to make this go away."

Caelum’s pov.

I watch the look on Sophia’s face.

I watch how it morphs and changes from a look of blank neutrality, to one of light worry, and then back to her blank neutrality.

The emotions her’s elicits in me are cool and calm for now, but I can feel the annoyance the worry she feels brings out in me. I can feel myself waiting for her to just show me an inkling of how much this hurts her, and give me the excuse to do what I've wanted to do for a while now.

Murder my half-brother with my bare hands.

“I can see Violet’s handiwork all over this.”

Sophia’s response isn’t the one I’d been hoping for, and I chuckle internally at that while I feel a smile line my lips, because trust her to always surprise me. I ask more silently, like we’re the only people in the room,

“Do you want to see what the public response is?”

She saddles closer to me and nods, and suddenly I want to do nothing more than have her in my arms, her laps straddling me, my hands on her hips, and my mouth on hers, bringi