Born In Water by Sarah Hegger

Author:Sarah Hegger [Hegger, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Hegger Author

Chapter Sixteen

Four more days until she had to catch a plane home, and with all of them holding firm on the not leaving Baile thing, she had no idea how she was going to manage that. Bronwyn was also no clearer on whether she wanted to be on that plane back to the States or not. Actually, that was a lie. She wanted to stay, but she couldn’t drop her entire life in the States and shack up with a bunch of strange witches in England.

Or could she? Deidre would have been all for it. Perhaps Deidre had wanted this for her all along. Dee probably hadn’t known about the English witches, or else their family might have run for the safety of Baile before any of their avoidable deaths.

Her anger rose sharp and clear. The Beaty women didn’t have an unfortunate way of dying young at all. Instead they had a determined enemy trying to ensure they didn’t live. Well, she’d gotten her answers about why her family died young. Rhiannon had killed them, and now she wanted Bronwyn.

Last night she, Roderick, Maeve, and the Cray women had sat in the kitchen and dissected every word of Alexander’s. Well, Roderick had done the dissecting. The rest of them had provided information and eaten the excellent dinner Alannah had served. They’d also tried to stay out of Roderick’s pissed off arc. All except Sinead, who was determined to modernize his thinking.

A knock on her door brought her back to the present.

“Hi.” Alannah peered around the doorjamb. “Feel like joining a rescue mission?”

As opposed to sitting here and brooding? “Damn straight I do. Who are we rescuing?”

“Maeve.” Sinead put her head next to Alannah’s. When Sinead wasn’t wearing her habitual scowl, it was nearly impossible to tell them apart. “We’ve got to do something about that dress of hers.”

“I think it’s all she has.” Alannah looked crestfallen. “She wears it every day.”

Bronwyn hadn’t really given it much thought, and the distraction opportunity was more than welcome. “I guess she didn’t pack for the journey they undertook.”

“We should find something for Roderick too,” Sinead said. “But I can handle that.”

She looked delighted by the prospect, and Bronwyn had to laugh. “You’re going to torture him, aren’t you?”

“A wee bit.” Sinead smirked. “I mean, he could do with a bit of torturing, don’t you think?”

“Just a wee bit.” Bronwyn made a tiny gap with her thumb and forefinger. “All that medieval manliness does make me want to put him in his place.”

Alannah laughed. “Which is where exactly?” She motioned Bronwyn to join them. “He owns Baile, or as near to owning Baile as anyone can, and he was the first coimhdeacht. That makes him everybody’s…great great great grand-something.” She cocked her head. “Is he even related to any of us?”

“Probably.” Sinead looked struck by the idea. “I’m going to do a bit of digging through the library. There are lots of personal journals in there. Want to bet me I find Roderick manwhoring his way through quite a few of those?”

“Um…no.

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