Radical (Clandestine Magic #2)

Radical (Clandestine Magic #2)

Author: Colleen Cowley Listening Length: 10h 48m
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Women have no ability to cast spells. That’s what wizards have said for generations—and it’s a lie. Beatrix Harper wants to expose it to protect her sister’s life. Her desperate plan: Train tens of thousands of women in secret, then shock the nation with a display of their magic. She thinks it will work—if only sh...

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Perhaps she thought he wouldn’t ask dayside. Or perhaps she intended to lie.

He gave serious thought to calling on her Vows—the one she made to him on his behalf and the one she made to him on behalf of her sister—in order to get the truth. But their relationship, if one could call it that, was built on a foundation of compulsion. He hated to do any more forcing.

No, he would just ask. But he would pay close attention to the emotions bleeding over to him from her, and he would put the question to her again that night. Nothing—nothing—would distract him from that.

He set to work on the R&D he desperately needed to complete and was making no progress on, trying to stave off the feeling that he had doomed the world to destruction on a scale never before imagined. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Wasn’t that what he’d told Beatrix about magic?