Wards and Wands: Complete Series by Royce Rebecca

Author:Royce, Rebecca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca Royce
Published: 2022-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

She woke to a tapping on the door. It sounded like someone drumming their fingernails over the wood. That was funny. Her mother used to do that when she woke her in the morning. The sound of fingernails drumming.

In Mitchell’s strong embrace, she squirmed not wanting to wake, and sleep pulled her back down. She hadn’t dreamed that she could remember but now she did. Or remembered.

She walked with her mother, struggling to keep up. All she saw was the back of her mother’s head. Her mother was always the most beautiful woman in every room. Wherever Eleanor got her funny looks, it wasn’t her mother. Long, straight, never frizzy blonde hair with green eyes that seemed to sparkle. Her father had the dark hair, only his didn’t seem to frizz either. Where had she gotten hers from? Some distant relative would have to be blamed.

“I need you to hurry.” Her mother linked their fingers together and pulled.

Eleanor ran faster. “Mom, why are we going so fast?”

They rounded a corner. In all the years she’d been traveling with her mother. She’d never seen the older woman run anywhere. They were always quietly looking at tracings on walls and looking through paintings and maps in flea markets. Eleanor had spent most of her life meandering.

“He’s going to leave. He was very clear with me we had five minutes to get there.”

“To get where?”

Her mother shouted, dodging out of the way of a woman with bags in her hand. Where were they? Eleanor had woken up this morning not even sure what European city they were in. Her mother must have driven all night.

“The tattoo parlor where the man is going to bless you for the goddess. I’m sorry it has to be this way. I see no other choice. No one trusts me, and I can’t blame them.”

Eleanor dug her feet in and refused to move. Okay, enough was enough. “Mom?”

Her beautiful mother’s face fell. She panted a little and bit down on her bottom lip. “I don’t know how to explain to you what I did and why I did it. I’m an idiot.”

That was the furthest from true as could possibly be. Her mother was the smartest person she’d ever known. Still, she let the older woman continue. “I got caught up in feeling special, in excitement, in knowing things others didn’t. It wasn’t until after that I realized how wrong it all was. Not that I can really call it wrong because of how it worked out.” She looked away. Eleanor still didn’t understand what her mom meant. “I will do whatever to make it right. And that means you need a tattoo and we need this man to do it. He’s the only one who can. You can’t tell anyone about it. Promise me. No one. If you tell anyone, we’ll all die. Everyone will die. Make an oath. A magic oath.”

A magic oath? “I’ve never done one before, and I still don’t understand.”

The door to the tattoo palace opened.

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