Bound In Blue: Book One Of The Sword Of Elements by Heather Hamilton-Senter

Author:Heather Hamilton-Senter [Hamilton-Senter, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Paths Publishing
Published: 2014-06-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

The world fell into a pattern: days at school and nights and weekends at the mansion. And while I sometimes felt a prickle up my back as if someone was watching me, there were no more howls, paw prints, or bathtubs full of seaweed.

October arrived rainy and cold. Leaves flared briefly to early, vivid life and then were struck down into the gutters. Binnorie’s prophesy wasn’t mentioned and neither was my parentage. I assumed everyone who’d missed the big news had been told that Cernunnos was my father, but no one mentioned it. Perhaps they were all being polite.

And maybe they’re just afraid the wrong word might set off the ticking time bomb.

Taliesin had assigned my training to Boudica and after a week, I wondered if it was to punish her or me. She wasn’t openly hostile, but I could feel her dislike. Boudica was of the wax on wax off school of training and I repeated seemingly insignificant tasks until I wanted to go Karate Kid all over her ass. I practiced holding still for as long as I could. Once I achieved thirty minutes of complete stillness, we began again with me balancing on one foot. I was still struggling to achieve even one minute in that position. She had me solve complicated puzzles and then break them up and do it again until I wanted to scream. Apparently no one trusted me to try to access even the orphaned colors that remained behind Viviane’s barrier until I demonstrated some discipline.

I just got better at faking it.

One of the best things about the mansion was the indoor pool and as the weather got worse, we all spent a lot of time there. The sight of Taliesin in Hawaiian print swim trunks was disconcerting.

Rowan in his Speedo made me want to gouge my eyes out.

Miko was afraid of the water and the closest she would go was to sit in her bikini on the edge of the shallow end, showing off her pierced navel in the center of her toned tummy. Peter did back flips and belly flops to impress her. Tynan swam solitary laps while Daley would practice a dive or two and then dry off and leave.

Tynan.

Things had gone awkward between us. Tynan was gorgeous and clearly into me, but he wasn’t Daley.

Isn’t the handsome guy with a secret past and hidden sadness practically the foundation of modern pop culture?

Because Daley was sad—I’d seen proof of it. I often stayed overnight in the room that was now unofficially mine. About a week after Binnorie’s prophesy, I was almost asleep when a flash of lightning jolted me awake. When no thunder followed, I knew it was him. I tried not to look, but I couldn’t help myself and I slipped out of bed and went to the window. Daley stood at the edge of the property staring up at the sky and I was shocked to see moonlight reflecting off tears on his face. The tingle

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