" I told Lucia how I felt, how I thought she was wrong about you. It was the one thing that came between us."
My breath catches in my throat. So then...he cared. He cared enough about me to stand up to his beautiful, powerful girlfriend.
"I thought what you did that day in the Shadow Garden was...incredible," Sebastian continues. "It was magic. Afterward, I kept waiting for you to come back. I wanted to ask you to show me more---but you never did."
"And now?" I ask, my chin quivering. "What do you think now, after everything you've seen and read?"
Sebastian touches my shoulder briefly, and I feel a tremor where his hand was.
"I've seen enough to know that you're still the Ginny I remembered from when we were kids. Open, honest, and incapable of hurting anyone. Maybe you are an Elemental, maybe not." He leans in closer. "But I'm not afraid. "

― Alexandra Monir , Suspicion