Charmed by Bretton Barbara

Author:Bretton, Barbara [Bretton, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal
Publisher: Barbara Bretton
Published: 2011-11-11T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Lilith is a beautiful Norwegian troll who serves Sugar Maple in two capacities: as both our librarian and unofficial historian. If Liv Jenssen's background was connected in any way to ours, Lilith was the one who would know.

She came over as soon as she closed the library for the night. I always felt a little happier when Lilith was around, a little calmer and safer, and her soothing presence seemed to have the same effect on Liv.

"Is Jenssen your father's surname?" Lilith asked after we'd exchanged pleasantries.

"My mother's," Liv said, coloring slightly. "I never knew my father."

"Matrilineal," Lilith said, nodding. "Norwegian, right?"

"For generations."

I had no idea where this was going but I trusted Lilith implicitly.

"She's magick!" Lynette exclaimed, sounding as excited as a child on Christmas Eve.

Lilith didn't answer. She took Liv's hands in hers and closed her eyes while we watched and waited. I'm not sure what we were expecting but this tranquil scene wasn't it.

"Did your mother ever mention anything to you about your family's gifts?"

"We never talked about it. I think she was ashamed."

"Or afraid," Janice said. "It's not always safe to be different."

"I'm sorry," Lilith said, "but I'm not picking up any magick."

"You're kidding!" I burst out. If Liv Jenssen wasn't magick, we were all in big trouble. "That's impossible. The signs are all there."

"Actually they're not," Lilith said in her gentle voice, "but if you give me ten minutes back at the library I think I can tell you what is there and it's every bit as wonderful."

***

Lilith was as good as her word.

Less than ten minutes later she was back in Sticks & Strings, a wide smile wreathing her lovely face.

"I knew it the second I saw you," she said to Liv, who was knitting furiously on her Aran, "but I had to be sure."

Liv put down her needles. The look of hope and fear in her huge blue eyes almost broke my heart.

"You're not magick," Lilith said gently, placing her small pale hand on Liv's shoulder, "but your family history is intertwined with the history of Sugar Maple and other towns like it."

Liv looked confused. "But how does that explain--"

"I'll tell you," Lilith said as we all gathered around. Since acquiring magick I'd come to realize how little I knew about Sugar Maple's rich history of sanctuary and freedom. I wondered what Lilith had come up with that could possibly link a quiet knitter from New Hampshire with our ancestors but the look of barely restrained excitement on the librarian's face promised something memorable.

"We've been here since the beginning of time," Lilith began, "magicks who live side-by-side with our human counterparts." The human mind has always had difficulty processing what it couldn't see or hear or touch and our shared history has been bloodied by conflict and strife. "But not every human saw us as a threat and those special souls--we called them the Others--reached out to us in friendship." The Others, many of them of Norwegian descent, became liaisons between the

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.