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away. They wanted me to react to him, or to kill him, and I didn’t give them the satisfaction of either.
    I shield my eyes from the assault of white light. I blink when I realize I’ve shifted back into my human form. I didn’t do it, something forced me back.
    “Congratulations, Miss Roseman. You have made it to the last challenge,” says Perlow.
    Next to him stands a small, white table with a velvet pillow and crown on top of it.
    “Please, bring your jewels to me.” I step up to him and drop the jewels into his hand. I’m surprised I didn’t lose any of them.
    He picks up the crown and places each of the gems in their own holder before reaching into his suit pocket and pulling out a white diamond, placing it at the center.
    “Do you know what this is?”
    I shake my head.
    “It was last used when our family of shifters were able to bear healthy females. It helped with arranging marriages. You see, when this crown is placed on someone from our bloodlines, it instantly will determine whether the person is strong enough to carry on the bloodline. If they are not, they will fall over dead. It was a good way to weed out the weak long ago.”
    “So, you want me to put that on my head, so you all know once and for all if I’m worthy of all of this.”
    He nods.
    I grab the crown from him. If I’m going to die, then I will die. I lay it on my head and wait. I lift an eyebrow at him. “Are they happy now?”
    He grins at me. “Yes.”
    “Good. Let me out of here.”
    He takes the crown from me and places it on the pillow. “There’s one more thing I must do.”
    Before I can react, he snaps the golden cuffs back on my wrists.
    “I finished the damn trail. What the hell.”
    “As added punishment for killing a Royal, you must stay under house arrest for one more month. During this time, you will not be allowed to use magic or be violent in any way. You may go to your classes and then back to your dorm, nowhere else. Mr. Norse will continue to be your chaperone during this time.”
    He sounds so robotic. I want to hit him, but I remember what happened when they first put these on me, I was paralyzed from the neck down until they released the magic.
    Fuck it all.
    ‘ I’ll get you out of this. There has to be a way to deactivate those cuffs.’
    ‘There better be.’

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    I want to murder someone. For the third day in a row, Jericho has followed me from class to class and everywhere I go. He still sleeps the living room. This probation period is so stupid. I proved myself. Why are they having Sir Pointed Face follow me around? Can’t Enid do that?
    It doesn’t help that his voice grates on my nerves and that my skin crawls when he looks at me, like his eyes are undressing me. He did see me naked back at the Orchard, and that makes it all that much worse.
    I don’t want to be alone with him, but I don’t have much of a choice. I haven’t seen Bullock since before the challenge. The last thing he said in my mind was how he planned to deactivate my cuffs so that I could use my powers again. I’ve tried talking to him through thought, but I haven’t be able to. I don’t know what’s happened to him. We don’t share any classes, and his tutoring sessions were removed from my schedule. I hope he’s okay and not hurt somewhere. It’s not as if I can escape and try to find him.
    I stop in my tracks. Perhaps, I can escape. I can use the passage in my room to go look for him. I could get lost though. I only know of the passage that leads to Paden’s quarters, and from what it sounds like, a maze resides in the walls of this school. I would need a Marauder’s Map just to start navigating it. Maybe Bullock has something like that.
    ‘Bullock’ I venture for the 100 th time in 48 hours. Nothing comes through.
    Jericho puts hand on my lower back, and I jolt upright, out of his touch. I swear he does that on purpose because he figured out I don’t want to be touched by him. “Get a move on,