Immortal Slumber (The Crawford Witch Chronicles Book 1) by S.L. Perrine

Author:S.L. Perrine [Perrine, S.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: QuarkXPress, ebook, epub
Publisher: Burning Willow Press, LLC
Published: 2017-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Getting to know my family was exciting, but I also felt like I had started to abandon the family that raised me. So, after a month of going back and forth to the Crawford’s farm house, I decided to spend a weekend at home with my family and hang out with my friends. I felt horrible lying to my grandfather, but I needed some time off from body and magic training. My friends and I had our regular circle three nights a week and one with the rents on Friday nights. I had Saturdays with the Crawford’s, and I managed to negotiate Sundays for me time.

Since I hadn’t really spoken much to Crystal about everything that was going on with me, I decided to spend some time with her. We hardly saw each other in school, and didn’t ever have an opportunity to speak privately at circle meetings, so we planned a day of girl stuff.

“Honey, are you awake?” Helen called through my bedroom door.

“Mom, I’m downstairs.”

Helen made her way down and gave me a look. “Are you feeling okay?”

“Yes . . . why?”

“Normally, you’re not up this early on the weekends. Even when you drive out to . . . Where is it that that family lives?”

“Alistair Crawford, he lives in Springfield,” I said, pronouncing Alistair.

“Okay,” she said, and moved to the counter to get herself a cup of coffee.

“I’m fine, and I’m not going this weekend. I’m going shopping with Crystal.” I popped the last of the waffle into my mouth and began to wash my plate.

“Oh, well good. You need to spend time with your friends.”

Helen didn’t say anything more, but she did sit at the table with a grin and sipped her coffee. I guess I should have known spending so much time up there would make her feel some sort of way. I slipped behind her and gave her a quick hug before heading outside.

Crystal showed up in her yellow bug. It was the same car she had been driving since she was sixteen. Her mom gave it to her early for a birthday present, because she didn’t have time to bring her to school in the morning. That was the year Elle had received the promotion with her firm.

Chad had been my constant companion over the course of the last month. We had spent so much time training and driving, there was barely any time to just be a new couple. So, we had set aside some time later on for an actual date. Crystal and I going shopping was a kill-two-birds kind of scenario, and she knew it.

“So, you going to share any details about this whole new family of yours?”

“Not much to share, really. I have two nice uncles and a grandfather, and a crazy aunt. Every time I see the woman, I get goose bumps.”

“Really? That means you’re sensing something wrong in her.”

“Like what?”

“Don’t know, but that’s what goose bumps mean. Think of them as like a warning signal for people who are no good.

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