Purged In Fire by Sarah Hegger

Author:Sarah Hegger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Hegger

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On the short drive from Baile to the village, Alexander’s hatred of her leaving the protection of the wards radiated off him. Bronwyn wished she could reassure him that everything would be fine, but he was too smart for that. Besides, she was taking a huge risk, and everyone in the Landy knew it.

Including her.

However, even having experienced the danger firsthand, it wasn’t enough to stop her from needing to go. The compulsion to make things right, to put Gemma out of pain, to win one back from death gnawed at her, and she couldn’t ignore it.

The only person who might agree with her decision would be Deidre, her grandmother. They’d been twin souls, her and Deidre, bound together by the family’s gifts and forged in the furnace of the amount of death and loss they’d both suffered. Deidre had believed if someone needed your help, you helped them. They didn’t need to be worthy of that help or even deserve it.

She still remembered when Deidre had helped a woman in their hometown of Saw Tooth, Maine, to ease her hot flashes. The woman had been a bitch to Deidre and her for years, always spreading malicious gossip about the strange Beaty women. She’d also been the person responsible for the rumor that Deidre had killed her own daughters, Bronwyn’s mother and aunt. But Deidre had helped her regardless.

“Our gifts are our blessings,” Deidre had said when Bronwyn had asked her why. “We don’t judge who is worthy of receiving their benefits. After all, we didn’t do anything worthy to get our gifts. They were given to us when we were born.”

Once her hot flashes had disappeared, the same woman had renewed her attack on Deidre and Bronwyn with the energy not consumed by menopause, but it hadn’t mattered to Deidre. “We can’t change how they see us; we can only control the way we behave.”

While not nearly as resigned as Deidre, Bronwyn did share her grandmother’s need to help people, and it had been magnified since she’d wakened water and unleashed the full potential of her power. Without an older healer to guide her, however, most of what she did was self-taught, and all those stupid books in the healer’s hall made massive assumptions about what she should already know.

“This is the house.” Alexander pulled up beside a cheery red door on a small, winding village street. White, terraced houses marched in an orderly row on both sides of the street, more modest and affordable than those homes built near the ocean.

“Stay put.” Warren hopped out of the back. “Let me take a quick gander.”

He prowled down the street, tense and alert, head moving left to right in slow, steady sweeps.

“Was it really necessary to bring him?” Bronwyn knew the answer before it came, but she needed a distraction from her galloping apprehension. What if, after insisting they bring her here, she could do nothing for Gemma? She’d never attempted a healing anywhere near as large as cancer.

Similarly tense, Alexander scrutinized the street.

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