Black Widow Witch in Training

"Do you – maybe want to catch up some time?" he asked and the uncertainty, something I hadn't heard in his voice since his seventh year, threw me a little. It was enough to remind me that he wasn't like any of Mother's husbands, he was just that boy that had got caught in my web and continued to orbit around me. Only he was a few years older now. He wasn't the sort of fly that dese