By Wind by T Thorn Coyle

Author:T Thorn Coyle [Coyle, T Thorn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PF Publishing
Published: 2018-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

21

Brenda

The spring storm had landed with a vengeance. Equinox was on its way, but it felt closer to winter than summer outside.

Wind smacked against the attic window and shook the mighty trees outside Raquel’s home.

Beeswax candles scented the peak-ceilinged room, blending with the smells of white sage and balsam. The ghost of frankincense and myrrh always perfumed the air, but the other smells overpowered them today.

Brenda was worried sick about Caroline, and wanted to be with her, but Caroline had specifically asked that she be here.

“I need your magic,” she had said, as Brenda held her close in the back seat of Alejandro’s car. So here Brenda was, keeping a promise to a woman she was rapidly falling in love with. A woman she barely knew, but who had somehow caught ahold of a corner of her soul.

Brenda was filled with rage that anyone had dared to harm Caroline. It tasted like metal on her tongue.

Brenda wanted to lash out, to hurl as much baneful magic at that man as she could muster, but cooler heads had prevailed. Raquel had been particularly insistent, and was right, as usual. Brenda wasn’t thinking clearly, and that was bad for any operation, especially one as important as this.

So it had been decided. Selene was in charge of the ritual tonight tonight. The coven had agreed that they had the most clarity of vision around what needed to happen. Besides, Selene was the best at making poppets, which was the major part of tonight’s work.

Tempest sat next to Brenda, teal hair clipped back off her face. She sent soothing energy toward Brenda through warm hands. It went a long way toward calming her down.

“Thank you,” Brenda murmured.

Tempest replied with a small smile, and just kept on. She was truly a master healer, the best the coven had, and that was saying something, because some of the others were very gifted.

Selene was in the center, throwing more herbs onto charcoal, gathering the red twine, the lemon, the pins, and the lock of Rafe’s hair that Moss had the foresight to rip from the man’s head in the middle of the parking lot fight.

Brenda’s thoughts kept going to Caroline, who she hoped was being taken care of by her friends. Lucy, Alejandro, and Moss had set up wards around Sydney and Dan’s home when they dropped Caroline there. She should be safe enough.

Brenda had never wanted to kill anyone in her whole life, but she wanted to kill Rafe.

So the coven was in Raquel’s attic, behind every ward and protection they could erect around the space. Arrow and Crescent was ready to call upon Diana to send out her hounds and to do what needed to be done to find and bind the man.

Archangel Michael had already seen to his punishment. The coven just needed to make sure he wouldn’t do anything like this again.

Brenda shoved a cushion behind her back and leaned against the knee wall behind her.

“Are you almost ready?” Moss asked Selene.

They nodded, and swept the straight fall of black hair over their shoulder.

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