A Sword in the Sun by Shannon Page

Author:Shannon Page
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Outland Entertainment
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

— CHAPTER ELEVEN —

I spent one more night in my room at the coven house, letting my sisters bring me meals, coddle me, and coo over my baby. Then I spent another day making sure I had the strength to be on my own—walking up and down the stairs carrying the baby, cooking myself small meals, sitting out on the back veranda. The day after that, I returned to my house.

“It is customary to take one to two weeks for recovery,” Leonora said.

I smiled at her. “I’m sure that’s the tradition, but honestly, I’m feeling just fine.” We stood in the front parlor as I held Rosemary, jiggling her slightly, though she had still not yet cried. “And besides, I have Petrana to take care of me if I need household help.”

To her credit, Leonora refrained from letting out a dismissive snort. “And besides that,” she said instead, “you have a coven full of sisters who are more than happy to take shifts at your house, since you insist upon living there. Every single one of them has asked me about it.”

“Have they indeed?” I asked, unable to stifle a smile. “Asked to come and help me there, or asked you why you’re letting me leave so soon?”

Now she did smile back. “A mix.”

I shook my head. “I understand, but I really do want to get back to my own home. Also, Jeremy won’t come see me or the baby here, and neither will my parents. They need to see her, and she needs to get to know them. All of them.”

Leonora nodded. “Allow me to bid farewell to the child, then, before you depart.”

“Of course.” I handed her to my coven mother, who rocked her and made all manner of extremely undignified noises at her. Rosemary appeared delighted by the old witch. I swear she actually laughed, though maybe that was just more drooling and random sounds.

Leonora’s face was soft and relaxed when she handed the baby back. “I will come and visit once you are settled.”

“Yes, you are always welcome.”

“You are not taking the ley lines, are you?”

“No, no.” I shifted Rose to one arm so I could dig my cell phone out of my pocket. “I’m going to call a car.”

“A taxi?”

I smiled at her. “Something like that.”

The phone, however, was entirely dead. I so did not understand the poor, feeble magic of these devices. How could they run out of power when they were turned off and not being used?

Fortunately, the coven house had a few electrical plugs. We even used them from time to time, so some clever human at PG&E wouldn’t notice that such a big house had a zero-balance bill every month, and wonder why.

I plugged it in and left it to do its thing while I packed. When I went back for it, I saw I had a couple of voicemails.

“Crap,” I whispered. They were both from Christine—Raymond’s sister. Today was the day we were supposed to have lunch. I’d forgotten all about her—about everything in my life except this baby, it seemed.

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