Magic of Blood and Ash by Kim Richardson

Author:Kim Richardson [Richardson, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

14

Icouldn’t face Aunt Luna. Couldn’t tell her how I’d failed royally after I’d told her all of her problems were solved. That I had this foolproof plan to save her house.

The weight of this failure was crushing me. I hadn’t felt this low in a long time. And it wasn’t a good feeling.

Orik’s money hadn’t worked, and now I was left with a crumbling feeling of desperation. And desperate people do desperate, stupid things.

And here I was, doing the thing I swore I’d never do again.

I glanced at the impressive, brown brick home with its steeply pitched gable roofs, intricate stonework and masonry, and imposing wooden beams set in a smooth stone or stucco exterior. It sat in the middle of a grand estate, sprawling over acres of lush meadows. The majestic three-story Tudor manor encircled a central courtyard while the property was shielded by dense woods that led to a massive pond.

Pulling my Jeep up the long driveway, I parked.

I gripped the steering wheel and squeezed. “What the hell am I doing here?” My heart slammed in my chest as I recalled the events from the last time I was here.

My father tried to kill me.

He’d used an illegal spell on me, a nightmare snare, and watched as I’d slowly succumbed to it, the life slowly slipping away from me.

Worse, he’d done it at a party in front of his friends and acquaintances. My brother had watched with glee, but my mother had had a visibly disturbed expression.

That reaction was the only reason I was here now. I needed her to listen.

And if it hadn’t been for Dash, I wasn’t sure my mother would have had the courage to stop my father. If it hadn’t been for Dash, I would have suffocated to death.

My thoughts moved to the handsome carpenter. He’d volunteered to come with me to that dinner party after he’d seen how much it tormented me to go and then had saved my life. How could I turn in someone like that?

Aunt Luna was fond of Dash, and if I did turn him in to the county sheriff, I had a feeling she’d stop speaking to me.

Having Dash with me again would have helped me face what I was about to do, but I didn’t want to involve him with more of my dysfunctional family drama.

I didn’t know how long I sat in my Jeep before I finally willed my ass out. I checked my pocket, making sure my antique lighter was there. No way I was going in without a backup plan. Said backup was that if my father tried anything again, I would fry his ass.

I trudged along the gravel path, my boots making a crunching sound with each step. The elegant gardens on either side of me seemed like they belonged in a fairytale, but the closer I got to the imposing double doors of the house, the more I felt a sense of disgust building up within me. The beautiful exterior was just a facade for what lay inside—a place that held so much pain and heartache for me.

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