Chapter 210: You've Signed Your Own Death Warrant
Veronica's magic ran sharper, more cutting, but clean. No issues there either.
Regulus could confirm it. The new segment these two Prefects had designed wasn't aimed at him.
Which left one possibility. Someone had learned about the addition beforehand.
Then found Geoffrey outside school. Talked him into it. Gave him something. Set him up to shine tonight, win a few rounds, and challenge Regulus at the end.
Geoffrey had bought in. Obviously.
A family like the Sayres, barely clinging to the fringe of Pure-blood society, had two paths: keep their heads down or claw their way up.
Whether this was the family's idea or Geoffrey's own didn't matter anymore.
The magic inside him was on the verge of collapse.
If Regulus hadn't noticed, he would have accepted the challenge.