Broken Bonds by H. C. de Cossy

Author:H. C. de Cossy [Cossy, H. C. de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-24T22:00:00+00:00

Malia had gone into town after hearing that Rosalie would be arriving shortly. She needed to fortify herself with chocolate therapy. She stopped in at the Baker’s Delight for a treat. Mollie was there, helping her mother pack up a batch of brownies for the Sweet Delight Ice Cream Shoppe, her own shop of decadent delights.

“Hey Lia, what’s up?” Mollie asked.

“Grand-Mère is coming this afternoon. She wants to meet the Dragons,” Malia groaned.

“Dragons! What did we miss?” Rachel gasped. Malia filled the Murphys in on the morning’s developments so far.

“Well, things are certainly moving at a fast clip!” Declan Murphy said.

“We are collecting Declans, too,” Malia joked. “One of the Dragons is named Declan as well.”

“Ah, but I would bet that it was my name first!” Mr. Murphy joked. “Therefore, it will be his fate to be shortened to something like Deckie, Dec, or Dex.”

“I am sure we can think of something,” Malia grinned. “I’ll let the kids do it when they get home.”

“You’re evil, you are!” Rachel told her. Malia laughed.

“I need chocolate if I am going to face Grandmamma this afternoon,” Malia informed the Brownies.

“You came to the right place!” Mollie said. “Come with me back to the ice cream shop, and I’ll make you a sundae with one of Mom’s best brownies here,” she indicated the box she was holding.

“Lots of whipped cream?”

“Of course! And rainbow sprinkles!”

Malia spent the rest of the morning with Mollie, taste testing new flavors and savoring the ginormous cookies-and-cream, hot fudge brownie sundae that Mollie prepared for her. At noon time, she left Mollie with an invitation to dinner for the Murphys that night and met Tony at the police department for lunch. They walked to Cooke’s Market together, heading towards the back where the deli and prepared food was. They found Marissa and Theo having lunch there too and joined them at their table.

“We had to get out for a while,” Theo said.

“How are you both feeling?” Tony asked them.

“I feel lighter than I ever have in my life,” Theo answered. “A weight I never knew wasn’t natural has been lifted off my back. I feel amazing.”

“I feel much more clear. A sadness and an underlying sense of anger and confusion is gone,” Marissa said. “I feel like I am thinking clearly for the first time in ages.”

“That’s wonderful, Sis,” Malia said. She reached over and squeezed her twin’s hand.

“What are we going to do about Grandmamma? This is turning into quite a circus.”

“I plan on ignoring her as much as possible,” Marissa replied. “She will hate that this is not all about her. Watch her try to take over in some way.”

“I’d like to see her try, with a houseful of Guardians, Dragons and Fae!”

“I hope Granny Niamh is up to adding more rooms to the house by tonight. We are certainly going to need them.”

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