Heiress: Birthstone Series Book Two by Melanie Atkinson

Author:Melanie Atkinson [Atkinson, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

AYLEN

“Aylen, are you listening to me?” Yuta rapped the table with her knuckles.

I jerked my head around to look at her, and grimaced. “Sorry,” I mumbled.

“I have to say, you’re not what I expected. I thought you’d be more eager to learn some of these skills.” My trainer held up the gem she’d been trying to tell me about and waved it in front of my face. “This is important. I didn’t come all this way just so you could daydream.”

It had been several days since my last flight lesson with Cole. Now that there were other options, Aluce had instructed Gil to keep flight training off the list because she didn’t trust me to stay put in Et Loedin. Probably for good reason.

In the meantime, I’d tried to attend each new training session faithfully. The Healing Gem came almost easy for me, which was a relief since nothing else seemed to. In fact, I seemed to be less controlled with every lesson. With most of the other gems, every time I attempted to fulfill an assignment, I wound up overdoing it. When I practiced on a weak Travel Gem, I ended up somewhere in the city, far from the location I’d been instructed to find. Later, I disappeared from my trainer’s sight and took half the objects in the room with me through most of my Concealment Gem lesson. My trainer couldn’t figure out how I’d done it and I didn’t understand any more than he did. It took me the rest of the session to reappear. Most of the furniture did not.

Now, as I glanced at the frizzy haired, freckled woman’s frown, my exasperation swelled. Still, I attempted to temper my tone before I spoke.

“I just don’t see how a ‘Passion Gem’ is going to help me win this war. My father is out there fighting battles, rallying people, and here I am, learning how to force people to fall in love with me.” I frowned and turned once more to peer out the room’s only window. Outside, several young men and women were practicing sword drills in a fenced courtyard. Many of the drills were similar to the lessons my father had taught me on the island.

“Don’t be foolish!” she spat. “If you can alter someone’s feelings for you, they’ll do whatever you ask.”

I had enough experience to know I would have to humor her. I fingered the brilliant, fuchsia stone on my necklace and tried to focus. The usual flurry of emotions crowded my mind as I attempted to single out the correct gem. After several minutes of painful concentration, I sensed its unique presence and connected to it individually. It felt foreign as a surge of heightened emotions rippled through me. I tried to choke them back and listen to Yuta’s instructions.

“Choose one of those boys,” she said, pointing out the window. “Convince him he’s in love with you. Make him want to do anything for you.”

Already, I sensed a problem with this. It

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