Cornelius: Warlocks of Amherst Book One by Taylor Rylan

Author:Taylor Rylan [Rylan, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mortimer Press, LLC
Published: 2020-09-24T22:00:00+00:00

11

Cornelius

I think I was more nervous about Matthew meeting the rest of the coven than he was. I wanted him to feel welcome, to feel as if he belonged. This was my home, and although it wasn’t the coven I was born into, it was the one I’d chosen to join because I agreed with the leadership and their views.

Matthew had started feeling a little better day by day, and he was now around six weeks pregnant and had the tiniest little bump that I couldn’t stop staring at.

Balthazar had started visiting, at Matthew’s request, and Constantine had been by a couple more times to check on Matthew. My little fae had taken to the older warlock doctor quickly. It was funny to see because Constantine didn’t quite know how to react at times. Constantine was older than me by at least a century, and he was quite set in his ways. Introducing a young, vibrant, mischievous fae to him had me chuckling. In a way, he tended to ruffle Constantine’s feathers.

“You ready?” I asked as I stared at Matthew. He was standing in front of the mirror, turning left, then right. “You look great. Why are you worried?”

“I haven’t met any of these people. Well, except for Bal and Connie.”

My eyes widened. Bal and Connie? “Umm, love?”

“Hmm?” Matthew asked but still hadn’t looked at me. I stood there, waiting. When his eyes finally met mine in the mirror, I raised an eyebrow in question.

“Bal? Connie? Really?”

Matthew smirked. “Yep. Although Bal doesn’t mind, Constantine does. And I don’t do it all the time, but I mean, come on. Constantine? Really? It’s so…stuffy and uptight.”

I snorted. He nailed the coven’s doctor on the first try.

“Yes, but he’s also almost four hundred years old. He came over with Master Edison when he moved the coven from England to the United States.”

Matthew turned and looked at me, his mouth forming an o.

“Did you not realize that?”

Matthew shook his head.

“Yeah. It was the late 1800s when they came over. Constantine’s family…his grandpa? Maybe it was his great-grandpa who was the original coven doctor. As in, he was one of the original warlocks created.”

Matthew’s jaw dropped. I knew what he was feeling because I’d had a similar reaction when I first found out.

“You ready to meet everyone?” I asked, changing the subject.

“I guess. How many are in the coven again?”

“Including you, twenty-two. There used to be more, but as you know, Michael and Ellie stayed in Timber Valley. And there are only a couple of younger warlocks left in the coven. In fact, we’ll have the first new addition in decades, actually.”

“Do the kids stay with their parents when they get older? Like the fae do, I mean? We stay with our parents until we find our own mates.”

I shook my head as I laced my fingers with Matthew’s. “No. When they’re old enough, they will move out of a family suite and move into a single room. They’re more like efficiency apartments, really. One

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