Master of Magic by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Tom straightened, alarmed. “Trouble? Not with the law?”

“Nothing like that.” Seeing the direction of his mother’s gaze, Rhys realized he’d laid one hand on Olivia’s wrist. He refused to move it. “Olivia’s like me. She can use magic.”

Rhys sensed the electric sizzle of magic in the air as Olivia let her glamour drop. His mother drew in a breath, a sharp little gasp of shock.

“The reason I couldn’t move is because I was under a spell,” Olivia said steadily. “I’m a member of a race called the Sidhe.”

His parents exchanged a flashing look born of thirty-four years of marriage. “Sidhe? As in . . . Fairies?” June asked.

“Basically, yes. But there’s a lot your legends about us have wrong.” She extended her right hand, and an image of the earth appeared, rotating over her palm. When she lifted her left hand, a second earth revolved above it, though the continents were shaped differently.

“That’s incredible,” June said, awed. Tom muttered something, either a curse or a prayer.

“This is the earth I’m from,” Olivia said, nodding at it. “It exists in a kind of alternate universe . . .” She launched into the same lecture on Mageverse physics she’d given Rhys earlier. “The result is that magic doesn’t work here.”

His mother stared at the twin planets in fascination, leaning over the table to look at them more closely. Her dark eyes flicked up to meet Olivia’s. “Then how are you able to do that?”

“By drawing on the magical forces of my own universe.”

His mother had never been slow. “So you’re saying Rhys does that, too?”

“Basically. The reason that you can’t use magic is because you didn’t evolve to. My people did, so I can.”

Judging by her frown, June didn’t like where this was going. “Then how does Rhys do it?”

“I shouldn’t be able to, Mom,” Rhys told her gently. “That’s what we came here to ask you about.”

His father stared at him. “But you’ve been doing weird crap since you were ten.”

Rhys took a deep breath. This was harder than he’d expected—and he’d expected it to suck. “Olivia believes that I’m not from here, Dad. Am I adopted?”

They stared at him, their jaws dropping simultaneously. He wasn’t sure whether to curse or be pleased. They hadn’t been lying to him all these years.

Neither of them had known.

“You are definitely not adopted,” June said tartly. “I was there. They told us that you were dead, that you were going to be stillborn. Nobody was more astonished than the doctor when he delivered you and you screamed your little lungs out, healthy as a horse.”

It was a story he’d heard for years. He’d been thinking about the implications for hours now. “Mom,” Rhys said softly. “What if your baby did die?”

Tom rose slowly to his feet to turn a chill glance on Olivia. “Ma’am, would you mind giving us a little privacy?”

She didn’t even look offended, just inclined her head in a faint bow and rose to her feet. “I’ll step outside. Come get me when you’re ready.

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