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“Nexum Semper.” Theo breathed out, putting his head into his hands.
“Calendula plant…” Theo’s voice was just above a whisper as they viewed the book by candle light in the dark library. “…Used as an ingredient for sexual attraction…”
This could not get any fucking worse.
They’d only gone and created the wrong potion, as Theo had suspected.
“Bind together always…” Oh, it just got fucking worse, didn’t it?
“Here!” Blaise’s eyes were travelling down the bottom of the page. “Says that the drinkers will forfeit the potion’s bond if both are either married or in love with the right person by the time they are thirty.”
Thirty… that was years away.
“And there has to be some sort of attraction there in the first place for them to even start to bond together-“ Blaise sounded pleased. “So all of this is a moot point really, but-“
And he was silent for a few seconds as he read the bottom of the page. Theo’s eyes glanced down for a moment, seeing words like ‘attraction’, ‘desire’, ‘prolonged’ and ‘hormones’ before the book was snapped shut and whisked away in a flurry of movement.
“I was still reading that, you pleb.” Theo announced and stood up as he watched Blaise vanishing the book, looking vexed. “What did you read that was worth you nearly snapping the spine of that bloody book?”
Blaise’s face suddenly became relaxed and passive. “Nothing.” He looked Theo dead in the eye. “It’s a load of bollocks mate, we don’t know what type of potion we actually made here. Chances are we didn’t even make it right – we just need to forget about it.”
Theo gave him a look, but then decided that his friend was probably right.
Yes.
Forget all about it.
That should be fucking simple.
Shouldn’t it? ...