Chapter 30: An introverts lament
Cass was at his wits end.
Sure, he found out the truth about Lady Fiona and Lady Ava, and that was all well and good, but he didn’t expect it would throw that big of a wrench into his plans.
First of all, the two wouldn’t leave him alone.
He’d been alone for a damn full week without any contact besides Sam, Byron, and Sir Forsythe. But now? Now the two wouldn’t leave him alone. They thought his office was for their personal use from the way they were behaving.
He’d wake up and find them already in his office before he even considered going down to join them at the breakfast table. Lady Ava was particularly bad for it, and he was finding that the more he was around her, the more his body seemed to have more aches and pains.
He had no idea why that was happening. There was no mention of how Lord Blackburn specifically avoided Lady Ava. He had just avoided everyone equally. It made Cass wonder if it was linked to the mark that had shown up on his body a few mornings ago.
It was a small circular symbol, with a darker, almost bloody-brown shade. Inside of the circle was a lily, the symbol for the ’gods’ in this world. Honestly, it looked like a pretty sick tattoo since the edges of the circle were rimmed with what looked like barbs. Also a symbol for the gods, and when Sam had first seen it on his shoulder blade when helping him change, he’d gasped.
Cass wondered if the contract, now that it had manifested completely, was the reason he felt so ill when Lady Ava was around. Not that he was ever going to tell her. The poor girl would be devastated if he said that.
So he was going to have to find a different reason to chase them away.
They were getting in the way of his work.
He was sure that if this had happened to the other men, without knowing the true intentions behind it, they would be ecstatic. Especially Lord Vespertine who was essentially Lady Ava’s older brother. Who wouldn’t want to get visits from your wife and your little sister?