The Ascended: The Eight Wings Collection by Akeroyd Serena

Author:Akeroyd, Serena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Riel

When Linford retreated to the garden with a cup of tea and a bottle of water, I watched him pick up a belt that was on a sideboard in the salon and drape it over his shoulder.

There were gardening tools within it, and I figured if he was heading out there to tend to his yard, that meant we’d have some privacy to talk.

We’d already discussed a lot since the guys had arrived, but there was more to talk about—like our next move.

All I knew was that the AFata were after me, but I had no intention of doing as my grandmother had done— I wasn’t going to run. I refused to.

They wanted me? Well, I didn’t want them.

If they couldn’t take no for an answer? It was shit luck for them, wasn’t it?

“Why do you think my grandmother ran rather than fight the AFata?” I asked softly, as Linford closed the door behind him, a shimmer of gold dust traced through the air as he used magic to shut it.

“Because of your mother?” Daniel inserted gently. “Nothing brings out our defensive and protective instincts more than a child.”

“Even a fighter like she was?” I shook my head. “I can’t see it.”

“She evidently had a reason to escape. Maybe they wanted something from her,” Seph murmured. “Something she wasn’t willing to give them.”

“Sol,” Matthew rasped, “if they knew about her Virgo, then they’d know any child she spawned might end up with a human and together, they’d create a witch born Fae. That would be enough of a motive. After all, who better to spy on the Fae than one of their own.”

“But I’m not one of their own,” I pointed out, uneasy even with the notion.

“To them, you are. Witches before bitches, and by bitches, I mean the Fae,” Daniel mocked, and I huffed out a laugh even as I shoved his arm.

“Ouch,” he moaned, but he was snickering as he cradled his arm.

I flipped him the bird as I crinkled my nose at him. “Baby.”

He winked, then grabbed the bottle of Coke he’d been nursing for a while and took a deep sip. “I have a feeling that when you claim us, it’s going to trigger something none of us are ready for. The fact that your grandfather can’t clue us in on it makes me uneasy as Sol. Thus far, he’s been able to help us, but where that’s concerned, it’s unmarked territory.”

I winced. “True. He did say I’d gain more control with my magic.”

“How out of control is it?” Matthew queried softly.

“Where it takes a young witch a day to learn a simple spell, it took me weeks. My mother despaired of me. She knew we were powerful, and I think she even sensed that I was too, but the spells never worked like normal with me. It made her upset—to the point where she stopped teaching me.

“Most of the things I can do are stuff I picked up from books I bought online when I was old enough and had more patience.

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