Witch Slap by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: V. J. Chambers
Published: 2018-08-01T19:23:50+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“Well, hello, Petra,” said the voice of my gran over the phone. “It’s good to hear from you. How are you settling in at Ravenridge?”

“Did Mom go to school here?” I said. I was in my room, sitting on my bed with the phone against my ear. I had to know the truth.

Gran was silent on the other end.

“She did,” I said. “She did go to school here and you kept it from me. Why did you do that?”

“Oh, thank heavens!” came Gran’s voice. “You finally know the truth and that gag spell that was put on me is broken. I’ve been trying everything to break that damned thing and having no luck whatsoever.”

“Gag spell? What are you talking about?”

“Someone put a spell on me so that I couldn’t tell you about your mother’s history with Ravenridge.”

“Why would someone do that? Who would do that?”

“I think it was the professors at the school,” she said. “They wanted you there, and they thought that if I told you what happened to your mother, you might not want to go.”

“Why?” I said. “What happened?”

“I was proud when she was accepted,” said Gran. “It’s a prestigious school, and I thought she’d be a proper mage when she came back. But she wasn’t. She was only frightened and nervous. And pregnant, of course.”

“With me,” I said.

“Yes,” said Gran.

I knew my mother had come back home pregnant and refused to ever tell anyone who my father was or how she’d managed to get pregnant in the first place. But I didn’t know that she was coming back home from Ravenridge.

Gran continued. “She dropped out. She called me and said she didn’t want to go to the school anymore, that it was too stressful, and could I please come and get her? Of course I did. When she got home, she proceeded to put up wards all over the house—in addition to the wards I have up already—and she checked them three times a day. She was always running around from room to room with smelly herb smudges, whispering strange spells under her breath. And when I tried to ask her what was wrong, she wouldn’t say. But I think it was pretty clear that something happened to her at that school. Something bad.”

I was quiet. “So, you think it was the fault of the school? You think something bad will happen to me too?”

“I couldn’t say about that Petra, but I think that’s why they put the gag spell on me. They didn’t want me to scare you off with the truth. That tells me that they’re desperate. Whatever bad thing that happened to Haidee, something worse is about to happen now.”

“That’s comforting,” I muttered sarcastically.

“Your mother got worse and worse as the pregnancy progressed, sweetheart. And after you were born, she just seemed to… snap.”

“I did it to her. I made her crazy.”

“No,” said Gran. “You don’t blame yourself. Swear to me that you won’t.”

I didn’t say anything.

“Petra?”

“I’m going to leave. They lied

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