The Witch's Consorts: The Complete Series by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781989096659
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2020-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Rose

When Aunt Ginny’s family got back a couple hours later, it was just her and my cousins. “The Assembly peeps went off to do their corrupt Assembly things,” Naomi summarized for me breezily as she guided me into her room for a private talk. “And Aunt Irene went home, at least for the moment. She threatened that she’d come for dinner.”

“I’m getting the impression you don’t get along with her so well,” I said.

“Oh, well, you know… She just takes being the matriarch of the family very seriously.” Naomi wrinkled her nose. Then she motioned for me to sit down at her reading desk while she sat on the edge of her bed across from me. The comforting smell of slowly aging paper drifted from the bookshelf behind me. I tried to focus on that and not the anxiety I could sense from my cousin under her flippant tone.

“I know we have to leave,” I said. That thought had loomed large in my mind while I’d waited for the family to return. “I’ve put all of you in enough danger already. It’s not as if you could hide us away forever. If you don’t have anything we can use to make the Assembly back off, well, we’ll just have to find some other way to do it. We’ve got other strategies we can use to try to gain some leverage.”

Naomi blinked at me. “You know, I was going to suggest the exact same thing—that you should leave and look into other strategies. But not like that. I think we should go take on this wretched faction that thinks enslaving witches is the thing to do.”

“We?” I repeated, staring at her.

“Yes,” she said firmly. “You and me and your consorts—and mine. I already talked to Greg. He agrees with me. And if things get bad, I suppose I might need him for more than just emotional support.” She let out a rough laugh. “I can mask any magic you need to use along the way. And the two of us should be able to accomplish plenty more than just one, even if you’ve got the fuel of five consorts.”

“But…” I grasped for the right thing to say. “It isn’t your fight. You hardly know me.”

“I know you well enough,” Naomi said with a swish of her chestnut ponytail. “I know you’re family. And I know what your father did, with the help of these people—they’ve hurt a lot more than just you.”

“But when they find out you’re helping me, and they almost definitely will, they could ruin your whole future.”

“Not if we ruin theirs first,” Naomi said, so fiercely that the nervous flutter in my chest started to fade. Maybe she was prepared for this kind of battle after all.

My cousin paused and leaned forward on the bed. Her brown eyes held mine. “And it’s not just the principle of the thing, Rose. The truth is… There was a while when I wasn’t sure I’d find a guy I really wanted as a consort.

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