Rivers and Moonlight by Jovee Winters

Author:Jovee Winters [Winters, Jovee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jovee Winters Publishing
Published: 2018-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Myrtle

And once again I was whisked away by what felt like dozens of guardsmen, and where before I’d been surrounded by hundreds I was now alone in a garden that shone like an aurora borealis in the beneath.

I’d feared after my unwitting duplicity had been discovered they might try to drown me by stealing Adam’s gift of air from me, but so far I still breathed the wet stuff. Which was good. It was really good.

I rubbed my biceps and shivered, feeling miserable to my core and a lot like I wanted to cry. I’d been dumped in these gardens, and though the most regal and lovely fish I’d ever seen in all my life swam through it and the waters were as clear as glass down here and the flowers and kelp beds as glittery as a unicorn’s frost tipped horn was, I was alone and scared and just wanted to go home and try to forget all of this had ever happened to me.

And all because I’d followed a stupid call of my name in water. How bloody foolish was I?

I groaned pitifully.

“I’m so sorry, Myrtle. You have no idea how very sorry I am.”

Meri’s gentle voice broke through my misery and I shifted on my bench, just as I sniffed back the hot tears I’d been fighting for a few hours now.

“So you’re here now,” I said and not without a little bit of irritation behind the words, “which means the spell you cast must be over with. They all remember you now, eh?”

At least she had the sense to look ashamed for herself. Crossing her hands in front of body, she clenched down on her jaw tightly. Her small nostrils flared.

But when she said nothing still, my annoyance at the entire night turned from but a mere spark into a hot flame. “How the bloody hells did this happen!” I demanded and shot to my feet, hands clenching tight as my whole body felt like it started vibrating like a tuning fork.

She sighed. “It happened long before I knew you, if that helps.”

“It doesn’t,” I sniffed, fires suddenly spurting out of me and leaving me feeling drained and empty inside. I plopped down onto the bench with all the grace of a drunken rhino. Dropping my head into my hands, I shook it and mumbled from between my fingers, “why did they all call me by my name, and not yours? How about we start there?”

I felt the brush of a body glide beside mine and when I peeked from between my fingers, I saw her sitting there, staring straight ahead and looking outwardly as miserable as I felt inwardly. It might make me a bad person, but I felt a little better knowing I wasn’t the only one wallowing in misery right now.

“I asked a witch for the spell, yes. You are right about that.”

I frowned. Overwhelmed by her selfishness to have done that kind of thing. Mucking about with not just one person’s

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