The Wild Hunt (River Witch Book 4) by Helena Rookwood

Author:Helena Rookwood [Rookwood, Helena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

15

TABITHA

Tabitha’s heart pounded as she stood outside the door. All of the energy seemed to drain out of her as she listened to her grandmother and Lysander’s conversation. She had only come back to check that he was okay – to apologise for upsetting him earlier when she had told him about Eocho and Fionn. She hadn’t meant to upset him when he was so unwell, and had wanted to reassure him that she was okay. She had only hesitated when she’d heard her grandmother’s voice, hoping to get an honest word from her about the condition Lysander’s injuries were in.

And now this. More lies.

Tabitha knew that she shouldn’t have expected any better from Lysander after everything that had already happened, but it still hurt.

Her mother was alive.

She stood rooted to the spot, knowing that she mustn’t be caught eavesdropping but unable to tear herself away from the conversation just the other side of the door. It made her head reel.

Just about everything she had known about her mother was wrong. Her name, even. Madeleine. Even Tabitha’s father had always called her Maud. So he hadn’t known the truth either. He and Tabitha had both grieved together, bonded over their shared loss. Tabitha’s memories raced through her mind. The little boats she had made with her mother, the incredible catches they would return to shore with. Were they all because her mother could use the old words like Lysander? Lysander had told her that he had never met her mother – but it was obvious now that he knew her, and that he knew her reasonably well by the sounds of it. Had he known from the start who she was?

Her mother was alive.

Tabitha raised trembling hands to the hagstone that still hung around her neck. The source of so much trouble. What had it done to her mother that had left her so affected? Was that why her mother had left her?

All at once, Tabitha realised that she would go and find her mother if she possibly could – that she needed to know why she had left her. She jerked back suddenly, as though her body was determined that she should leave right now in order to find her mother, to ask her everything she wanted to know.

And she crashed into a warm, solid body behind her.

Before she could cry out, a gentle hand was squeezing her shoulders. She wheeled round, her heart still pounding, and realised that it was Morgan, holding a bowl of stew. He took one look at her tear-stained face and ushered her back away from the door.

Leading her back through her grandmother’s sprawling house, Morgan only paused to deposit the bowl in the kitchen before grabbing two thick cloaks and bundling Tabitha up in one of them. He hurried her out of the house and away from the scene where they had overheard Lysander and Ondine’s conversation, and Tabitha let him. She was barely aware of where he was taking her as they

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