Hidden Conduit- The Complete Series by J N Colon

Author:J N Colon [Colon, J N]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

My stomach continued to growl all the way down the steps and into the kitchen. Abuela was at the stove, cooking up a storm of pancakes, eggs, biscuits, bacon, and sausage links. Her head swiveled, her brow arching at my approach.

A few weeks had gone by, and I hadn’t come down once for breakfast. I always waited until the kitchen cleared to eat my small plate in peace. Before this whole mess, Abuela wouldn’t have put up with my absence. She wanted to hover over me and make sure I ate more than a strip of bacon.

She didn’t need to worry about that anymore. Ever since I’d started working with Lucas, my appetite had grown. Maybe the strong bind they’d put around my powers when I was younger had something to do with my almost nonexistent appetite. Was I going to finally get curves like Marisol?

I glanced down at my thin body. Probably not.

I hopped on a stool, grabbing a plate. “Hey.” Let’s not make this a big deal.

Abuela nodded. “Help yourself before your sister gets up. You know she’ll eat everything.”

The edges of my lips twitched. “And then some.”

She chuckled and turned back to the batch of pancakes she was working on.

My powers were doing much better. I hadn’t felt that out-of-control, unstoppable swell I had the night in the cemetery. Thanks to Lucas’s lessons and Etie’s talisman, I was almost normal—for a witch. The lights rarely flickered anymore, and I’d only broken a few light bulbs during practice. I’d also managed to kiss Etie without frying anything electrical.

A grin curled my lips thinking of the Cajun Casanova. He’d popped into my room last night and slipped under the covers. I promptly kicked him out this morning before anyone noticed his presence. My grandmother knew Etie frequently slept over, but my mother was another story. Even though I was eighteen, she’d have a heart attack. I was still her baby.

“How’s it going with Lucas?” Abuela asked, sliding another pancake onto the stack.

“Good.” I scooped some scrambled eggs onto my plate. “I’m learning a lot.”

“That’s good.” A smile broke across her face. “You seem much better lately. Lucas’s powers seem to have pacified yours.”

I nodded, chewing on a piece of bacon. “He has that effect.” His power was to calm others. It was no shock I was falling under his influence.

“Do you like him?” She set the plate of pancakes on the counter, turning toward me with a strange gleam to her eye.

“Yeah, he’s great.” Lucas was one of those genuinely good, polite guys you read about but never really thought existed. I still couldn’t believe the girl he was promised to had chosen someone else.

“Your father would be so proud of you, Evangeline.”

She’d said those words before—back when I was a perfect, obedient angel—but they’d never seemed so heavy. Would my father be proud I was using my powers? Even though she denied it, my mother hinted his death might have had something to do with me. He wanted my powers bound, and he could have died protecting me.

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