Making Midlife Marvels: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Forty Is Fabulous Book 4) by Heloise Hull

Author:Heloise Hull [Hull, Heloise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henwin Press LTD
Published: 2021-08-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Aradia was quiet. I didn’t like it immediately.

Manu pocketed his bone dagger while I helped Coronis limp into Rosemary’s Bakery. Before I’d even closed the door, Thessaly somersaulted over the lintel and raced to her. If I were to guess, she had been watching and already knew what had happened. Their reunion was loud and exuberant. It was also tinged with fear.

“I’m going to find Mak and see what he thinks,” I announced, wanting to leave them to their peace.

Protectively, I reached out and touched her bobbed hair, but Coronis flinched, and I pulled back, trying not to feel hurt. I’d brought the gods back into their lives, and here they were, menacing and hurting them again. Here we were. An existential crisis had nothing on what I was going through right now.

I heard a rumbling chatter in Marco’s Taverna, so I headed there first. Candles smoked on the scarred tabletops, and a fire still blazed in the large wood-oven behind the bar. It’d been going since Marco started the place in the thirteenth century and nothing would put it out. Nothing, except total war coming right to Aradia’s shores.

Bruno sat in the center of the room, raising a racket about being imprisoned. Through bared fangs, he hissed all of the horrible penalties he was busy dreaming up for us. And here I thought vampires didn’t dream.

Rosemary sat next to him in a flour-covered lemon apron, fear and uncertainty pulling her lips into an unfamiliar frown. I made a bee line for her, but before I could tell her about Coronis, she screamed. “Ava? Is that you?”

I closed my eyes briefly. “Yes, and also no. I found Tefnut’s immortal body.”

Rosemary reached out to touch my face before squeaking sorry.

I grabbed her hand and held it cradled to my cheek. “Don’t you ever apologize, Rosemary. I don’t plan on keeping this body. I’m Ava, first and foremost.”

“Darling, I don’t think that’s how it works,” she said.

“Sure it is. What’s the use of being divine if I can’t do whatever I want?”

Rosemary smiled weakly, and I quickly changed the subject. I gave her the rundown on Coronis and Thoth. My friend’s face dropped in horror, and she quickly ran over to the bakery, grabbing Mak by the arm as she went. With those two on it and Thessaly guarding her, that was one less thing to worry about.

Meanwhile, I had to summon my general skills and bring this grotesque game with Thoth to an end. “Tiberius?”

The chipmunk sailed through the air, and I was pleased to see how much stronger he looked already. “Yes, my goddess?” he bowed.

“Tiberius, cut that out. Can you summon Nonna and Culsans back from the pillars in Nibiru? I’m switching tactics.”

“Sure, but why are they there?”

“I thought Thoth might try to prop the pillars up and release the gods again, but now I’m positive that’s not what he wants. Other gods would only get in his way.”

“Of what?

“Absolute power.”

“What should we be worrying about, then?” He twitched his whiskers because, of course, there was always something to worry about.

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