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I stiffened, uncertainty filling me.
I wanted to tell him, but what if the professors were right? What if sharing my secrets meant losing him?
What if it made us enemies?
“Hey,” Jahrdran murmured. “We’re mates. Nothing you can say will ever change that.”
I wanted to believe him.
Idid.
But I was afraid.
“They told me not to say anything,” I muttered.
“What? Who?”
“Headmistress Blackthorn. Professor Dunlop. The other professors. Mr. Brecken.”
“Thelibrarian?”Jahrdran asked incredulously.
I shrugged. “I’ve been researching in the libraries, looking for more information about my kind and our history. He figured out what I was and admonished me not to tell anyone. Notanyone.”
“Huh. That’s weird. I can’t imagine any supernatural that would cause so much—” He broke off and his arms tightened around me compulsively.
“Jahrdran?”
“Shadow,” he breathed.
“What?”
“I knew she was a shadow cat, but I just figured she was one of the magical creatures wandering the castle grounds. After all, the shadow cats are almost gone from this world. They all faded when their Monsters died.”
Silence fell as he processed.
I didn’t speak, afraid to even admit he was on the right track.
He suddenly lunged upward with me in his arms.
He turned and set me back on the bed, grabbed his jeans and began to dress, agitation in every movement.
Dread tightened my throat.
I leaned over, grabbed my t-shirt off the floor and quickly pulled it over my head.
I wanted to approach Jahrdran, touch him, remind him that I was still me, but he was standing, hands on hips, staring down at the floor and I was frozen in fear.
Afraid of what he was about to say.
Finally, with a deep breath, he turned to face me. “She’s not just some random creature you happened to make friends with, is she? Shadow’s your familiar.” He said it almost accusingly.
I shook my head. I didn’t know what I was saying no to—that she wasn’t my familiar, that she wasn’t a familiar at all, that he needed to stop before everything fell apart.
But I could see it on his face.
He already knew. He’d already figured everything out.
“That’s your secret, isn’t it, Kasima? You’re a shadow monster.”
