Daughter of Magic by Teresa Roman

Author:Teresa Roman [Roman, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw
Published: 2016-03-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

My mother’s reaction caused a storm of anger and rejection to billow through me. She clearly had no desire to see me, and was angry with Devin because he had brought me to her.

“Don’t talk to him like that,” I said. “I made him bring me here. If you want to be upset with someone, be upset with me.”

“She defends you even though you’ve put her life at risk,” my mother said, addressing Devin as if I wasn’t in the room. He lowered his head, like a child being scolded by their parent.

“I’m here only because I need answers from you,” I said, choking back tears. “Once you give them to me, I’ll leave, and you can go back to forgetting that you ever have a daughter.”

“What?” My mother looked at me like I’d just slapped her across the face. “You can’t really believe that’s what I want?”

“You disappeared from my life without a trace. No note, no picture, nothing to remember you by, and then you show up at my father’s funeral. It was your chance to explain things to me, but instead you ran away and let me think I was losing my mind. What kind of mother does that?” I wiped the tears from my cheeks and pressed my fingers over my eyes to steady myself. I’d sworn I wouldn’t cry, yet here I was, bawling like a baby.

“The kind who wants to protect the daughter she loves more than her own life.”

I dropped my hands from my face and looked at my mother, studying her. How in the world did we look so much alike? People might mistake us for sisters, maybe even twins, rather than mother and daughter.

“You have to believe that if I had any other choice, I would have stayed with you and Mark forever.”

“Why didn’t you?” Rayden asked.

“I ran away from the Wilds because I wanted a different life than the one laid out for me. One where I wouldn’t be forced to marry someone I didn’t want to.” My mother took a few steps closer before continuing. “I planned to live in Crescent City with you and your father forever. I prayed that, with enough time, Zoran would forget about me, that he would assume I was gone forever and move on with his life, but it didn’t happen that way.”

“If Zoran found you, he wouldn’t have let Lilli or her father live,” Rayden said.

“It was Dara who found me . . .”

“Who’s Dara?” I asked.

“Zoran’s mother,” Rayden explained before turning his head to address my mother. “How is that even possible?”

“She has her moments of lucidity,” my mother replied. “And one of those moments came after I ran away. She was determined to find me and return me to her son to make up for being such a poor mother to him. I used every cloaking spell I could come up with, but she managed to track me down anyway. I’d left Lilli at home with her father one day while I went to the store.

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