Beautiful Darkness by Garcia Kami & Stohl Margaret

Author:Garcia, Kami & Stohl, Margaret [Stohl, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Love & Romance, Love, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, United States, General, Supernatural, Psychic ability, People & Places, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12), Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780316077057
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2010-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

I pressed my hands against my temples, trying to keep my head from exploding. Marian laid her hand gently on my back. “I know it’s a lot to take in, but it doesn’t change anything. Your mother loved you.”

I shrugged Marian’s hand away. “Yeah, she just didn’t love my dad.”

Marian jerked my arm, forcing me to face her. My mother may have been my mom, but she was also Marian’s best friend, and I wasn’t going to get away with questioning her integrity in front of Marian. Not today, or any day. “Don’t you say that, EW. Your mother loved your father.”

“But she didn’t move to Gatlin for my dad. She moved here for Macon.”

“Your parents met at Duke when we were working on our dissertation. As the Keeper, your mother was living in the Tunnels underneath Gatlin, traveling between the Lunae Libri and the university to work with me. She wasn’t living in the town, in the world of the DAR and Mrs. Lincoln. So she did move to Gatlin for your father. She moved out of the darkness and into the light, and believe me, it was a big move for your mom. Your father saved her from herself when none of us could. Not me. Not Macon.”

I stared at the lemon trees shading Macon’s grave, and past them, to my mom’s gravesite. I thought about my dad kneeling there. I thought of Macon, braving the Garden of Perpetual Peace, if only so he could rest one tree over from my mom.

“She moved into a town where no one accepted her, because your father wouldn’t leave, and she loved him.” Marian held my chin between her thumb and her fingers. “She just didn’t love him first.”

I took a deep breath. At least my whole life wasn’t a total lie. She loved my dad, even if she loved Macon Ravenwood, too. I took the Arclight from Marian’s hand. I wanted to hold it, to have a piece of both of them. “She never found the answer, the way Mortals and Casters can be together.”

“I don’t know if there is a way.” Marian put her arm around me, and I leaned my head on her shoulder. “You’re the one who might be a Wayward, EW. You tell me.”

For the first time since I saw Lena standing in the rain, almost a year ago, I didn’t know. Like my mom, I hadn’t found any answers. All I had found was trouble. Was that what she found, too?

I looked at the box in Marian’s hands. “Is that why my mom died? Trying to find the answer?”

Marian took my hand and pressed the box into it, wrapping my fingers around it with hers. “I’ve told you what I know. Draw your own conclusions, but I can’t interfere. Those are the rules. In the great Order of Things, I don’t matter. Keepers never do.”

“That’s not true.” Marian mattered to me, but I couldn’t say it. My mom mattered. That part I didn’t have to say.

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