#Chapter 321: A Matching Pair

I awake to a sharp knock on my bedroom door. Neil’s arm is still draped over me but some distance had inched between our hot bodies in the night. I’m able to slink out from under his arm without him waking. Naked, I quickly stop by the bathroom to throw on my fluffy bathrobe. Then, after glancing back at Neil to make sure he’s properly covered from the waist down, I walk to the door and open it a crack. Archer stands on the other side. He’s fully dressed, even though it’s not quite dawn. I worry for a half-second, thinking it an emergency, but his stance is too relaxed for this to be anything but a social call. Albeit one at – I check the clock on the nightstand – 5 am. “Is everything okay?” I ask him. He must know Neil is in here with me, but he’s too relaxed to be furious about that, even if his nose scrunches in displeasure. “I need to borrow your dagger,” Archer says. “My… dagger?” My dagger, gifted to me by my old friends before I attended this school, before I ever m