Eight If By Choice (Chronicles of Winland Underwood Book 8) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Winland didn’t fully expect her mom to understand the nuances of why she’d done what she’d done with the dark wizard Hector Fang. Though Leeland hadn’t shown an inch of animosity toward the man the whole time she’d been staying in her daughter’s house, it was only logical that she would want Fang to suffer by being tossed out of the house and teleported somewhere far, far away, anywhere beyond the protective shield of the Crimson Heart’s wards.

What Winland didn’t expect was for her mom to look so disappointed that he was gone and out of both their hair.

The witch looked like a fisherman who’d just lost the biggest catch of his life. Or like a woman who’d found an incredible treasure, only to have it ripped from her hands and tossed away like someone else’s trash.

What’s her deal?

The women stood in the cold on the Light Elf’s front porch and stared at each other until Winland couldn’t take it anymore. “You look like you have a problem with that.”

Leeland tilted her head in a fake gesture of concession. “I think that could have been handled a little differently, yeah.”

“You mean you would’ve handled it better,” Winland snapped. “Is that it?”

The witch opened her mouth, and it looked like she was about to back down and let the conversation sit on the back burner for another time. Then she tapped her lips a few times with two fingers. “I just happened to have more of a comprehensive understanding of what—”

“Save it.” With a snort, Winland brushed past her mom and stormed across the front porch and inside the house.

I just single-handedly got rid of one of the most powerful wizards I’ve seen in a long time, and she’s still standing there and acting like I’m a kid who needs to learn a few hard lessons in ‘how to deal with bad guys.’ I am so over this shit!

Leeland walked in after her daughter and paused at the open door to look one more time over her shoulder at the sky above the tree line. “Winland, I really think we should discuss this just a little more. Before you call it a night. You might not have as much time as you think before—”

“What is there to discuss?” Winland spun in her destroyed living room and spread her arms. “You already said you think I should’ve captured him and locked him up again, which is so clearly not an effective way of dealing with the guy.”

“But it would have given us a little more time,” Leeland replied evenly. It was impossible to keep her wary disappointment from bleeding through into her expression, no matter how hard she tried to look calm and collected and in control of the situation. “Now we don’t have that.”

“Time?” The Light Elf laughed and dropped her arms back down to her sides with a smack. “To do what, Leeland? Torture him some more? Exact your revenge for locking you up for thirty years?”

“No, to question him.

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