Let It Flow: A witch's coming of age (Letting Go Book 1) by H Kinani

Author:H Kinani [Kinani, H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Crescent Books
Published: 2021-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

4

The Forbidden Library

M

y mom was a wreck, vomiting so strongly into the toilet that the blood vessels around her eyes had already broken, leaving her looking as tired and ill as she was probably feeling.

I helped her tie her hair away from her face and then stroked her back until she was done.

When she finally collapsed on the couch, ready to sleep through the worst of it, I remembered the last time.

Lucien had been so disgusted to find her useless on the living room couch. But he would be angrier to see her in bed, sleeping the day away while he worked. The injustice of it made my stomach hurt.

When I glanced at the ticking grandfather clock, it showed half-passed-three. Less than an hour until he was home.

My lip curled in distaste at the thought of facing him.

Normally, I would supress the angry feelings I had toward the warlock, but this time, when they came, I accepted them. I allowed them to course through me, to fill me until I felt like I might burst.

He'd done something to my mother, all these years. I was sure. He’d done something to make her stay with him. Maybe to make her be with him from the start. Usually, when I thought of how fast mother remarried, tears came to my eyes. Now, fury bubbled under my skin. I wanted to make him pay for what he had done. But how? I wasn't able to fight him; I never would be. Mother though... at her full strength, she might be strong enough.

My gaze fixed on her small form. It was hard to believe that she had once been a powerful witch. We came from a long line of them and she had been so proud of her heritage. I had too, even when I'd grown to be a dud.

Sure, I would have loved to have magic, it was disappointing to be missing a trait that everyone in my family had, but that was just how it was.

I'd accepted it a long time ago.

I couldn't do magic, no, but my mother could.

If only I could find a way to free her.

I looked toward the stairs.

The library.

I barely hesitated, but it still felt like I was doing something wrong as I crept quietly up the stairs, trying not to wake my mom.

It was silly, really. She wouldn't care if I went upstairs. She would assume I was going to my room. I'd never once broken my promise to stay out of the library. I'd never seen a reason to. Until now, I had been sure that my mother was on the case of our illnesses and there was nothing I could do to help.

Still, there was a sense of importance in the air as I crept to the end of the long hallway to the incongruous, library door, where it loomed, dark, carved wood, worn with age.

A large lock was in plain sight above the doorknob. A spell could probably open it, but being magicless, all I could do was turn around and go into my mother and stepfather's room.

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