Darling, you have no idea what horrors magic can wreak. Felix shut his eyes briefly. "The Cabal has its rules for exactly this reason. Not all practitioners are as stringent. But if it were really magic, I should have felt it, sensed it."

That was what had woken him and kept him awake: the realization that he should have known what was happening, but had sensed nothing. "I simply don't know what else it could have been. "