Circle of the Moon by H P Mallory

Author:H P Mallory [Mallory, H P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, fantasy romance, vampire romance, college romance, new adult, witch romance, new adult romance, epic fantasy romance, academy romance, epic paranormal romance
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

BRYN

I walked into Rowan’s bedroom, leaving the door ajar. Compared to the rest of the house, Rowan’s room was extremely cold. By at least ten degrees. She was a witch, not a vampire, but she slept like a creature of the night anyway—completely oblivious to temperature.

Rowan liked it cold, but the open window let in too much of a chill overnight. She shivered a bit, shaking in the center of her four-poster bed. It was barely dawn. Dim, grey light streamed in through the windows. A breeze blew the white curtains away from the wall. The air smelled like rain. Inhaling deeply, I closed the window and latched it.

The yellow light from the hallway shone on Rowan’s sleepy face. She blinked, coming slowly awake as I crossed the room. I sat on the bed next to her.

Pushing the mass of black hair out of her face, I couldn’t help the smile that crested my lips. Rowan slept like she’d been dropped into her bed from a helicopter sixty feet above—limbs askew, hair matted, blankets bunched up and twisted around her. Not a vampiric stance at all: Sinjin’s blankets had always been meticulously folded, and sheets, crisply tucked into corners.

I was grateful she wasn’t a vampire. She had magical skills, like me or Jolie. Her mother was a witch; why shouldn’t she have magic of her own? But, by the other side of the same damning coin, her father was a vampire, and a master vampire, at that: why shouldn’t she have vampiric tendencies of her own?

When Sinjin had been temporarily transformed into a human, the spell had left him with certain human abilities, including the ability to father children. It made sense that the children he fathered would only inherit his human traits. I’d been so relieved Rowan didn’t have fangs when I started breast-feeding. That had been a major pre-baby concern.

Rowan always joked that, if she were a vampire, then I wouldn’t have to cook. But, despite her Sinclairian looks and ethereal paleness, she was just as human a witch as I was.

Still, brokering yourself with magical creatures had its drawbacks. Sinjin’s human-vampire anatomy could sire a human child, but at what cost? There was always something in the back of my mind that kept me holding my breath. For fifteen years, the doubt had festered.

I remembered holding Rowan’s sweet little head in my hand. Cuddling my newborn close, feeling more joy than I could put into words, but still, I thought, We don’t know how she’ll grow; she’s the first of her kind…

The thought walked with me everywhere. Like a high-pitched droning sound I’d managed to mostly tune out. There would always be mystery surrounding Rowan and her magic. Rowan herself was a mystery.

Yet another thing she has in common with her father.

That thought’s drone was a little harder to ignore.

“Wake up, Ro,” I whispered softly. “I need to talk to you for a minute. Then, you can go right back to sleep.”

“Mum…?” Rowan mumbled. “Wha... what’s going

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