Perfect Pending: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Witches of Gales Haven Book 1) by Lucia Ashta

Perfect Pending: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Witches of Gales Haven Book 1) by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-31T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter Fourteen

I needn’t have worried about spending more time with Quade on this assignment. He, along with Harlow and Leonie, was singularly focused on the problem at hand. Said problem was Macy and Clyde, who were struggling to maintain a chill veneer appropriate for disinterested teenagers. The grins kept slipping through their façades. Despite the barrier situation, they were psyched. Moving the kids to Gales Haven was working out better than expected—imminent threat of danger aside.

After dinner, we relocated outside Gawama Mama House to the middle of a wild field that passed for a backyard, where my gentle Grandpa Oscar had encouraged nature to unfurl as it wished. The grasses were long enough to tickle my ankles, which they did continually with echoed giggles that I could have easily thought imagined, only I knew they weren’t. Grandpa Oscar had taught the natural elements here that they were free to reveal their magic, and so the trees, their trunks old and thick, swept overhead, enclosing us in a swaying sea of green. Their leaves rustled continually with their slow movements, making the scene magical, even before the little white lights floated around the field like fireflies, illuminating the darkening night.

As I took in the crisp evening air and the vibrant green of happily flowering plants, I ached with the thought of how much I’d missed home. Away from there, absorbed by the daily to-dos of a busy life working and raising kids, I’d allowed myself to believe what I’d left behind didn’t mean that much to me.

Now, the reminders of what I’d missed out on were everywhere, proving I’d been lying to myself the whole time. My gaze bounced around, never leaving Quade for long, wondering for the first time in a while what life would have been like if I’d remained in Gales Haven to be with him. I wouldn’t have Macy and Clyde, which was a deal-breaker, but the theoretical exercise still consumed my mind. Quade’s features were ruggedly handsome, but more importantly, open and trustworthy—nothing like Devin, who’d had his eye on my replacement while we were still married. The younger woman worked in his office, where I could easily imagine all sorts of improprieties going on while he wore his wedding band, but I refused to torture myself with the actions of a man who hadn’t valued or respected me as I deserved. He was better off forgotten.

“Confirmed,” Leonie was saying, and I trained my focus where it belonged instead of on a past I couldn’t change, not without borrowing someone else’s magic. Rewriting the past never worked out the way one expected—or well.

“Macy’s magic is disruptive. She can interrupt other magic, make it go wonky. Everything I’m seeing tells me she’s the problem behind the barrier spell. It’s got to be what happened.”

“It makes sense,” Quade said. “Marla arrived with Macy and Clyde right before the Johnsons found their way in.”

Harlow narrowed her eyes at my daughter as she continued to scan her. She’d been at it for a solid five minutes.



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