Watersong03 - Tidal by Amanda Hocking

Author:Amanda Hocking [Hocking, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 1250008115
Amazon: B009LRWJIY
Goodreads: 16045037
Publisher: Griffin
Published: 2013-04-16T07:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Cursed

“I love him,” Penn breathed as she flung herself backward into her bed. In the three months that Bastian had been staying with them in France, Thea had heard Penn utter those same words a hundred times.

“You’re being dramatic, don’t you think?” Aggie asked. She sat perched on the edge of her sister’s bed, watching Penn sigh and coo over her newfound romance with Bastian.

“No, I love him.” Penn smiled so broadly it looked painful to Thea, who preferred to stay at the edge of the room to watch Penn’s daily declarations of undying love to Bastian.

“But he doesn’t love you,” Thea pointed out, and Aggie and Gia immediately turned their heads to face Thea in shock.

Thea was certain that her own expression of shock and horror mirrored theirs. While she’d thought that same sentiment at least a hundred times before, it was the first time she’d actually said it aloud. Her irritation had grown to be too much, and she couldn’t contain it anymore.

“He doesn’t love me,” Penn said, her voice flat, and then she sat up with a start. “It’s the damn curse. He can’t love me. We have to get rid of it.”

“Get rid of it?” Gia asked. She sat on the other side of Penn, her fair skin paling further at the thought of undoing their curse. “We mustn’t do that. We don’t know the repercussions.”

“I’m in love, Gia,” Penn insisted, imploring her to understand. “I can’t let anything get in the way of that.”

“But Gia is right,” Aggie said. “If we attempt to undo the curse, we might undo ourselves. Remember what happened to the minotaurs? When they repealed their curse, they made themselves extinct.”

“Don’t be so simple,” Penn growled and got up. “We’ll find our father or Demeter. One of them will know how to get rid of this without killing us.”

“Where will we find Achelous or Demeter?” Gia asked. “They’ve been in hiding for years.”

“Look harder!” Penn snapped. “I am in love with Bastian, and I am going to spend the rest of my life with him!”

“If you give up the curse, that might not be very long,” Thea said quietly. “The muses can give up their places for love, but it means they must also give up their immortality.”

“I won’t have to give that up,” Penn said, brushing off the idea. “Bastian is immortal, and so shall I remain.”

“What if you had to choose?” Thea asked. “Between living forever or true love?”

“I won’t have to choose.” Penn looked at her sister like she was dumb or insane. “I can have both.”

“Dear sister, but you must,” Thea pressed. “The only way I know to undo the curse would be to destroy the scroll, and that would lead to our demise.”

“We won’t destroy the scroll,” Penn said. “We will find another way. Maybe the gods can bless me the way they have Bastian.”

“There are hardly any gods around,” Thea reminded her. “And none of them will undo a curse to bless you.”

“I am in love, my dear sister.

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