To Prevent Warm Welcomes (Magical Mayhem Book 5) by Emily Martha Sorensen

Author:Emily Martha Sorensen [Sorensen, Emily Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-05T23:00:00+00:00

She hadn’t looked at the child’s past before. She’d been too busy focusing on Chronos and Kendra and what she might have to do to her sister. But she realized now that that had been a mistake.

In the course of just a few seconds, Rhea flashed through just enough to take in the gist of the girl’s life. She could see the turning points and the broad strokes of what the girl had done and what she wanted.

Tiffany raised many fascinating possibilities.

She’d been raised by villains. She had no love for her family. She’d spent most of her life alone or avoiding the people she lived with. In many ways, her past seemed similar to Chronos’s, which meant her sister no doubt thought they were similar.

But in personality, Tiffany was more like Rhea.

Rhea let a slow smile drift across her face. Interesting . . .

“Please please please please please please! Please please please please please please! Please please please please please please! Please please please please please please!”

Tiffany was hanging on to Minerva’s waist, while the woman struggled to get her off.

It was definitely in their best interest to humor the girl.

“Give the child what she wants, Minerva,” Rhea ordered.

Minerva stared at her in horror, waving the paper as if that contradicted what her boss had just said.

Rhea said nothing more.

With an exaggerated groan of despair, Minerva hid her face in one of her hands.

But she obeyed. She used her other hand to push her magic through the paper. A stream of sparkles shot through the page, sending the crayon drawing out of two dimensions and into three.

It was every bit as ugly as Minerva had claimed. It was enormous, twice as wide as Tiffany’s head, and it had a line of rhinestones on it that looked simultaneously cheap and gaudy. There were three feathers on top that looked ridiculous, and two more on the bottom that looked ludicrous. It was overall a dreadful design, sheer tackiness, exactly what you would expect from a ten-year-old who designed in crayon. Rhea understood why Minerva had been so reluctant to make it exist.

But they were not in her shop. This would never have her name on it or be displayed as one of her designs. It was merely a bribe to bring the child onto their side. And it was working.

“HURRAY!” Tiffany shouted, leaping up to seize the mask as it swooshed through the air, accompanied by fading sparkles. She had it in her hands before the sparkles were gone, and shoved it on her face and posed. “I am . . . the CUTE AVENGER!”

“You’re not!” Minerva said, storming out of the room in a huff. “You’re just a kid with no fashion taste!”

She was absolutely right, and Rhea didn’t mind that at all.

Very interesting, she thought, watching the child and smiling.

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