_Raven’s POV_I stood in the sitting room with my bag still on my shoulder and tried very hard not to let my anger show on my face.Lucas was smiling as if he was being reasonable. His tone was calm and his words sounded kind, but I knew exactly what this was.He wanted to control me. Cassian stood nearby with that calm expression on his face but there was something in his eyes that gave him away. He looked too satisfied and too pleased with himself.He did this, I thought.Of course he did. It was all his idea. I wanted to argue. I wanted to tell Lucas that I had already asked my mother, that I wasn’t a child and that he had no right to decide where I went. He might be my stepfather now, but that did not mean he got to control my life. But I didn’t want a scene, not in front of the staff and not when my mother was probably resting upstairs.So I swallowed it.“Okay,” I said quietly. “I’ll stay.”Lucas smiled as if I had made the mature choice. “Good girl, I think this is for the be
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