Faery Odd-Mother: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novella (Witching After Forty Book 9) by Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff

Author:Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff [Davis, Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

How was I supposed to explain all this to my grown kids? Grown kids that really didn’t want anything to do with me, thanks to their jerk father.

“Okay,” I said carefully. Back to that word again. I sat across from them and took their hands. “Feeling a little bit better?”

They both nodded. “Yes,” Devan said. “Why?”

I nodded toward my best friend. “Ava here is a witch.”

They both jerked away, turning to look at her in horror.

“No, don’t, she’s helping you!” I held out my hands. “Don’t freak out, now. Hear me out.”

They settled back but looked more tense. “I’m not off to a very good start,” I said with a sigh. “There are powers in this world that most people don’t know anything about. Witches, shifters, vampires.”

“Shifters?” Jessica asked weakly.

Ava interjected, “Like werewolves in movies, but more like shapeshifting. They’re not evil entities out to turn all humans. And they can be any kind of animal.”

Jess sucked in a deep breath and eyed Ava over her shoulder. “Okay.”

And that was the word of the day. I guess it could’ve been worse.

“There are Fae and angels. Demons, too.” I considered other creatures. “Ghouls, ghosts…”

“Mom,” Devan gasped. “Seriously?”

I nodded and touched both of their legs. “Seriously. It’s a big, wide world out there.”

“What does any of this have to do with us?” Devan asked. “And the vines?”

“You had vines too?” Jess looked at her brother. “How?”

“I was in the bathroom at the movies.” He slapped his hand on his face. “I left Carolyn there. And it was our first date. She’s going to think I’m a jerk!”

“Text her,” I said. “Right now. You’ve not really been gone all that long. Tell her you got sick, puking.”

He grimaced. “I don’t want to tell a girl that.”

“Better than telling her vines started coming out of your ass,” Jess said.

“Jess!” I furrowed my brow at her. “Language.”

But that didn’t get the reaction I expected. “First of all,” she said, sitting up straight and cocking her head at me. “I’m a grown woman. I’m nineteen years old—” Ava snorted. It was hard for me not to, as well. Nineteen felt like grown at the time, but it was definitely still a baby. Jess shot Ava a glare. “I’m an adult. So I’ll cuss if I like. Second of all, even if I wasn’t over eighteen, who are you to try to parent me, now?”

She tried to puff up with bravado, but the tears in her eyes betrayed her.

“Oh, honey,” I whispered. “I’m so sorry.”

Devan finished his text and slipped his phone back in his pocket, then scooted over to put his arm around his sister. “You’re the one who left,” Dev said. “We were just kids, and you left us.”

I shook my head, at a loss. “We got divorced, honey. I didn’t have a choice.”

“You did,” Jess hissed. “You left us.”

They’d been nine and eleven when Carter had filed for divorce. So young. “I was a different person, then, yes. I wasn’t the best mother that I could’ve been.

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