Sister of the Sea: A Reverse Harem Witch Series (Winslow Witch Chronicles Book 2) by Lena Mae Hill

Author:Lena Mae Hill [Hill, Lena Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speak Now
Published: 2018-01-12T22:00:00+00:00

twenty

Raina

Every night that week, Raina and Seeley went out and lay on the rock while Yvonne sang. Sometimes, she’d see a boat and slip off the rock into the water, pulling Raina with her. Raina lived for their nights on the rock with Seeley cradled in one arm, watching the siren sing her magic into the night, then making love and finally retiring to bed near morning.

On the fifth night, like all the previous nights, waves crashed a steady rhythm on the shore and lapped against the base of their perch. The stars prickled the velvet night overhead and danced on the water. Nothing mattered but Yvonne and her voice, her hair blowing in the wind, the moonlight glimmering off her scales.

Suddenly, she reached down and shook Raina’s shoulder, as if she suspected her of sleeping. Raina sat up, sliding Seeley into her lap. “What is it?” she whispered.

Without ceasing her song, Yvonne pointed. There, on the horizon, a ship’s sails had appeared. In the moonlight, they glowed white, the only thing in the entire ocean besides the scant light reflecting off the water.

Raina opened her mouth to speak, but Yvonne’s song grew louder, drowning her senses. She fell back against the rock, overwhelmed by it. It tore at her chest like a thousand cranes were inside her, flapping their wings to get free. She wanted to cover her ears, to block out the painful beauty of the song. It was so true, so solitary. It carried in its melody all the sadness and longing and dashed hopes of her life.

Gasping for breath, she tried to tell Yvonne to stop, but she couldn’t force the words out. And she didn’t really want to. She wanted the song to go on forever, giving voice to her sense of isolation, of being different and alone.

The ship grew closer, until Raina could make out the multiple sails, could even hear the heavy canvas slapping against the wind. Her chest buzzed with excitement. Suddenly, her magic flared up with an undeniable warning. There were supernaturals on board.

As the ship drew near, agonizingly slow in its progress, her heart began to hammer. Something was swimming alongside the ship.

Her magic searched for River’s, for something familiar and yet foreign. Her failure to recognize it sliced through her heart. She should know her brother, even if he’d been only a boy, not a warlock, when they were separated.

But then she remembered the words of Queen Thalassa, the sea goddess and queen. If she became a mer, she would lose her magic, too.

Was that what had happened to him? He couldn’t come back to find her because he was a mer, and she couldn’t sense his magic for the same reason. He had traded his witch magic for the magic of a song.

When at last the ship drew close enough to see the black flag atop the mast, Raina’s chest tightened painfully. Beside the ship, something flipped in the water. It was him. It was all she could do not to dive off the rock, into the water, and swim to him.

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