Eye of Saturn (The Daughters of Saturn Book 1) by Raso Idalita Wright

Author:Raso, Idalita Wright [Raso, Idalita Wright]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Solstice Shadows
Published: 2016-02-25T18:30:00+00:00

BEWITCHED

Francisca moped from room to room, day after day, barely eating and bursting into tears at the slightest provocation. She finally settled down at her vanity, brushing her hair vigorously. Francisca stared at herself in the mirror and burst into tears. Winter had brought heavy rains and at times snow, which was unusual for Toledo. Normally, wintertime was sunny and had mild temperatures. The unusually gloomy days had worsened Francisca’s melancholy. The last time she felt this level of despair was when she’d lost her daughter, Victoria.

“Francisca, my love, please come to bed,” Tomás said, kissing her on the nape of her neck. “It has been a long time since we’ve made love.”

Francisca squirmed away from her husband’s touch.

“Not another insufferable night of this,” he bemoaned.

“I can’t help it, Tomás, I miss Felipe and Lilith. I was just getting acquainted with her when she was taken away from me.”

“Francisca—”

“I miss laughing and talking with her, Tomás. We’d made plans to go shopping in Toledo and take in the city’s festivities and go to the market. She stopped brushing her and turned to Tomás with an angry frown. “For the first time, I had a daughter and you took her from me!” Francisca stood up on the verge of tears.

“What was I supposed to do, Francisca? Allow Felipe to carry on with Zaybeth in front of Lilith? I could not allow such blatant disrespect to go on in this house.”

“No, I don’t suppose you could have allowed that.” Francisca could no longer hold back her emotions and burst into a violent flow of tears.

“Oh, you don’t understand because you had sons to mold into men,” she said, in between sobs. “You were too busy teaching Felipe about wine and politics to notice I longed for a daughter. You and your greed took both Felipe and Lilith away from me!”

“Francisca, Felipe is a young man and would have left this house eventually to make his mark upon the world.”

“Perhaps,” then a thought occurred to her. “You could have allowed Felipe and Zaybeth to marry. They were in love. At least they would have lived here, along with our grandchildren,” she said simply.

“What? Marry Zaybeth? Woman, have you gone mad? That redheaded harlot has bewitched you.”

“Zaybeth has done no such thing,” Francisca shot back.

“She’s the reason our son had to leave, not me.”

“No, it was you that sent our Felipe away, not Zaybeth.”

“You’re blaming me?”

“Yes! You chose gold over your own flesh and blood.”

“What I did was in the best interest of our family. As I recall, I did not hear one single complaint when I gave you the very gold upon your ears and around your neck, or bought the exotic foods on your plate, filling your gut. That was all made possible by Felipe’s and Lilith’s arranged marriage.”

“Since you love gold so much, here, take them! I don’t want them!” Francisca took off her earrings and yanked off her necklace, throwing them across the room at Tomás.

“Francisca! Come to bed. We can make love and I can give you the daughter you’ve longed for,” he said, reaching for her.

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.