53ISABELLA My heart nearly stopped.Ravena’s father stood unbothered near the stone entrance, his sharp eyes locked on the place where the spell had vanished. For one horrible second, nobody spoke.Then the Seer rounded on me.“If you want me to continue teaching you,” she snapped, “then you will do exactly as I say.”Heat rushed into my face immediately.“I was doing exactly what you said,” I shot back, clutching the book tightly against my chest. “I was reading it.”The Seer’s pale eyes narrowed dangerously.“You were reading with intent.”I frowned. “What’s that supposed to mean?”“You weren’t studying the spell.” She stepped closer, lowering her voice. “You intended to use it.”I opened my mouth, then closed it again.Because she was right.I hadn’t just been curious.The second I saw the bonding spell, desperation had taken over. Some part of me had hoped there was a way to weaken the mate bond before it destroyed whatever sanity I had left.The Seer exhaled sharply through her
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