Canes of Divergence by Breeana Puttroff

Author:Breeana Puttroff [Puttroff, Breeana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Teen & Young Adult, Paranormal & Urban
Amazon: B00DYFH6F0
Publisher: Thirteen Pages Press
Published: 2013-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

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Crumple

Rosewood Castle, Eirentheos

TWENTY MINUTES LATER, Quinn climbed up into the bleachers at the crumple field, cradling the baby, who was still making quiet fussing noises.

He’d been screaming when Linnea carried him outside.

“I swear, he hates me,” Linnea said, sitting down on the cushion beside her, watching as he pushed his face against Quinn’s shirt, hungry again.

“He’s a baby,” Owen said, climbing onto the bench one row down from them. “He can’t hate anyone. He just likes his mom best.”

“Sometimes,” Quinn said, laying the baby on a pillow Linnea set on her lap and getting him settled in to nurse. “Other times, I think he likes Mia better than me.”

“He doesn’t like her better. He’s just trying to help you know you’re supposed to ask her to go back to Philotheum with you to be his nanny.”

Linnea’s mouth fell open, and Quinn very nearly dropped the baby. He fussed at the interruption to his meal.

“What, Owen?”

“Mia is supposed to be his nanny. She knows that, and she wants to, but she’s afraid to ask anyone. She thinks Queen Charlotte will be mad at her for wanting to leave, and she’s really afraid she’ll ask you and you’ll say no, and then Charlotte will be mad and she won’t have a job, and Thomas will be mad because she really loves him, but she thinks this is the job she’s supposed to do.”

Linnea stared at him. “Owen, you haven’t even talked to Mia since you’ve been here.”

Owen frowned, blinking several times before his eyebrows knitted together in confusion. “Was it a dream?”

Quinn’s eyes met Linnea’s, and she knew that they both wore the same expression of shock. Linnea’s hands were trembling; Quinn looked down to make sure her own hands weren’t shaking the baby.

“Yes, Owen. I think it must have been a dream,” she said, trying to hold her voice steady.

“Oh.” He shrugged, unperturbed, turning back around to watch as everyone else trickled onto the field and bleachers for the game.

Simon’s wife, Evelyn, and William’s sister Rebecca had just arrived together, both of them with their sons. They sat together in the bottom row, chatting animatedly with each other and the infants. Charlotte would probably come out to join them, to let little Hannah be with her nephews.

Linnea was watching them too. “That will be us in Philotheum soon,” she said. “You with Samuel, and me with someone a tiny bit smaller.”

Quinn raised an eyebrow.

“Not yet,” Linnea said. “At least, as far as I know.”

“Well, I hope it’s soon,” she said, sighing. “It’s hard to know that I’ll be raising Samuel so far away from his cousins and his family.”

“You’re stuck with me. I’m excited, actually, about going. I’ll miss it here, but … I’m ready for a new adventure in a different kingdom.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. Even if I hadn’t married Ben, I think I would have tried to find a way to go with you guys. I love Rebecca, but you’ve become my sister just as much as she is – and she has Evelyn now.

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