Queen Witch by Elle Middaugh

Author:Elle Middaugh [Middaugh, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Middaugh
Published: 2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

When we got to the Old Quarter castle, just a tall stack of crumbling sandstone bricks, I led us around the outside and over to the edge of the cliff.

Jagged rocks lined the precipice the whole way to the bottom, where navy blue waters crashed greedily at the shore. A few tufts of tall grass lay bent over flat from the power of the wind, and amongst them, wild daisies dotted the ground.

Gage’s eyes lit up. “You can’t be serious....”

“It’s only my first method of testing,” I countered with a hand on my hip. “But yes, I’m totally serious.”

I licked my lips and took a deep breath, edging closer to the overhang. The wind picked up, lashing my hair across my face and ruffling my gown ungracefully.

This cliff in particular always scared me a little. There were countless people who’d died there over the years, whether by an accidental fall, a recreational jump gone wrong, or an actual suicide. People literally called them the Suicide Cliffs. I had magic to protect me, but still, it totally freaked me out.

I quickly pulled a flower and backed away from the ledge.

“Okay,” I said, taking a calming breath. I plucked a petal. “He loves me.” Then I plucked another. “He loves me not.”

Gage tugged the entire flower right out of my hand.

“I’ll make this easy on you. I don’t love you. Not yet. But I could. You’re the kind of girl I could see myself falling hard for. And for the last time, I’m not under a love spell.”

Heat rushed through my body as his words brought me to life.

“Fine. I’ll whip up a quick counterspell, just in case, and if it doesn’t work, I guess we’ll know the answer.”

He raised a brow. “It won’t change how I feel about you, will it? Like, make me not like you when I actually do?”

“Only if the ‘like’ was fabricated.”

He nodded. “Okay then. Spell me. Or antispell me, or whatever.”

I wanted to smile, I really did. He was being so damn cute. But I was scared to death that his feelings for me would vanish at the end of my next few sentences.

I took the daisy back and thought about crushing it into magic dust, but I decided against it. I closed my eyes and, instead, channeled the magic from inside me, hoping I wasn’t making a terrible mistake.

“Magic inside me rise and swell, help me with an antilove spell.”

As the magic floated away from me and swirled around Gage, I squinted and stole a peek.

He was staring right at me with a stupid grin on his face.

“Is it over?” he asked. “Are you satisfied?”

I ran a nervous hand through my hair. “I don’t know. How do you feel?”

He ran his own fingers through the path mine had just taken.

“The same as I did ten minutes ago.”

Then he kissed me. A quick caress that was merely meant to reassure me, not seduce me. But I wasn’t so sure it worked.

“Now, show me this Old Quarter.

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