Chapter 106: I’ll win. Simple as that
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Caius’s day home from school wasn’t spent lounging around. He barely even had the time to study the Arcane Codex for more symbols to try creating a second spell because his father immediately got him training with the Von Helsing Regimen right after their talk.
"Best way to get past this sort of traumatic experience is to work your muscles," Lucian had said, "Work all those bad emotions out of your body."
The words seemed kind, but the intensity of the exercises did not.
Caius had a feeling his father was working out some of his anger with him for not joining him in hating Athenodora by working him to the bone and beyond.
All that talk about hating her enough for both of them seemed to have been just that; Talk. It was so clear that Lucian would be more than happy for Caius to join him in his hate. It would be one more thing they could and should bond over. As far as Lucian was concerned anyway.
When Caius fell into bed at the end of the day, after all those exercises, he immediately fell asleep. He was awoken at daybreak for yet another day of school and he could not be happier. He feared his Father was still working through his anger and was glad not to be locked into another workout regimen.
When he got to the carriage meant to get him to Lochxen, he found that there wasn’t just one but three. Hellsingers of both genders stood at attention by the Carriages they would be boarding to bolster the added security meant to always follow Caius about.
Caius turned to Orland,
"What about Gareth?" He asked.
"Sir Gareth is still on the mend, Master Caius," the Master Butler answered. There was no evidence of falsehood but Caius just didn’t feel like it was the truth.
The other three that had been part of Gareth’s squad were not here either so he had a feeling they had simply been changed out completely.