Mages By Fortune (Birthright Book 2) by Terah Edun

Author:Terah Edun [Edun, Terah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terah Edun Publishing
Published: 2019-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

15

“Well,” her stepmother demand. “Explain yourself this instant Maeryn Darnes.”

Mae felt Donna Marie reach out to her from behind her.

She whispered only one word, “Don’t.”

Mae felt her entire body trembling at the effort to hold back the truth. She just wanted it out. Tired of all the secrets and lies and even more, she was offended on behalf of the foreign woman. At most times if you asked her, well Mae couldn’t stand her. But out of all the adults in her life, family and strangers alike, this one was the one who had been as truthful as possible with her. She may have held some things back but she had never out-and-out lied to Mae. Unlike her stepmother standing before her. Unlike the great-aunt she had confronted in the hallway.

That was not even taking into account that she had also saved their lives and she was a guest of their family holding.

Which is why when it came down to it…Mae felt like she owed her.

So she acquiesced to the female mage’s spoken wishes and muttered to her stepmother, “Nothing.”

“What was that?” her stepmother responded harshly.

“I didn’t mean anything by it,” Mae snapped harshly. “I just…had hope.”

“Hope for what Mae?” her stepmother asked in exasperation. “What could you possibly want that you don’t already have? That your family doesn’t provide for you?”

Mae’s head snapped up at the words thrown in her face.

“It’s not about not having something that my family can’t give,” Mae cried out in protest.

“Then what is it?” her stepmother pressed with urgency in her voice.

Mae waved a wild hand while losing control for once.

“You’ve known me since I was Gareth’s age!” Mae said. “Can’t you see what I’ve always wanted. What the boys have always have? It’s not fair!”

“Magic is not for girls, Mae” her stepmother said in harsh voice. “Get that through your obstinate head.”

Mae stuck out her lip. “Says the elders, says the grandmothers. What about what the young want?”

She truly was asking.

“Mae what has gotten into you? How dare you be so disrespectful to your elders,” her stepmother asked as she looked genuinely shocked.

“It’s not disrespectful!” Mae cried. “Its just the quest for the truth.”

Her stepmother shook her head in complete disappointment as she responded, “It’s like you’ve become a completely different person in the space of a week.”

Mae didn’t know what to say, the truth or a lie? She could tell her she’d been kidnapped, told she was mage, found out her male relatives were performing heretic rites, and was pretty sure the woman in front of herself was involved in keeping her own children sick, but Mae didn’t think blurting it all out at once with no proof would help anyone.

Least of all her siblings.

Fortunately at that moment Donna Marie stepped in.

“Mistress Darnes we’re all under a tremendous about of stress it would seem,” the foreign woman said with a kind look in her eyes.

Mae’s stepmother turned to her reluctantly as if she’d forgotten the other woman was even present.

She pursed her lips in displeasure as she said, “I’m so sorry to involve you in this.

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