Arcana Academy (Arcana Academy, #1)

by Elise Kova

“Does dressing exhaust you so much that you have to sit down in the midst of doing it?” I nod at the chairs. “It’s exhausting being this good-looking.”

Top—Present Position: Seven of Swords Center—Problem: Ten of Coins Center Left—What Is Known: Knight of Swords Center Right—What Is Unknown: King of Swords Bottom—Likely Outcome: Ten of Swords

I waste no time. “Someone is going to try to kill your father.” Kaelis, very slowly, returns his pen to its stand and steeples his fingers, as though I have come to him with a business proposal and not news of his sire’s impending demise. “Clara,” he starts slowly. “You cannot just barge in here and talk dirty to me.”