What a Witch by Colleen S. Myers

Author:Colleen S. Myers [Myers, Colleen S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Something brushed my face. I flinched backward.

Baz held up his hands. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to wake you.”

I rubbed my face on my sleeve. “No, it’s alright.”

He inclined his head to the kitchen. “I saw.”

“My aunt Betty. She defended us and wouldn’t tell the vampires where we were. That is why they did that.” I waved my hand toward her.

Baz sat next to me on the sofa and put a hand on my shoulder, I let him pull me into a hug. “I am so sorry, cherie.”

I’d thought I was all cried out but just the small showing of sympathy and the tears started up again.

“I want to know why they are doing this. Isn’t life already bad enough? Why hunt mages? It doesn’t make sense.”

His chin nuzzled the top of my head. “I don’t know. We will figure it out soon.”

He was right, lamenting never helped anything, only action. That reminded me.

“I’ll be right back.” I mumbled before taking off for the stairs.

By the time I reached the top, Baz appeared at the bottom. “What are you doing?”

“I need to grab something. Start taking the supplies to the dock, and we can go after that.”

“What are you getting?”

I hated lying to him after his show of comfort but desperate times. “I have to get something for Josie, her favorite toy.” My mind blanked. Toy, how lame was that. Still he bought it.

His eyebrows lowered but he didn’t follow me up the steps. “Okay.”

I kept my gaze averted and ran to my parents’ room. Another few seconds and I was at the closet. I never could find the seam. My fingers pried at the carpeting, feeling for the crease until. Yep. There. I was able to fit my fingers under the edge and up.

Eureka.

There was no light in the hole, but I knew what contents we kept in here. I pulled out the book and shoved it into my back pack, sliding the top into place quickly. When I stood up, a picture drew my eye.

I stared. I’d forgotten my dad had this picture. All five of us, Mom, Dad, Alex, me, and a two-year-old Josie. We’d taken it the summer before the Madness. Last family photo. We all looked so damn happy.

Tears flooded my eyes and my fingers curled. I reached out and ran one fingertip down my mother’s face. Katherine Tremayne, my mother, my rock. The strongest woman I knew, my mom. So pretty and powerful, no one ever guessed at her strength but the family knew.

My chest tightened and I felt the tears as they fell down my face. I missed her so much. And Dad only a year later. He just kind of gave up. My mother never would’ve left us like that, not if she could help it. Dad though, he sort of faded away without her.

“Are you, all right?” Baz asked.

I damn near peed myself to hear his voice so close. I hadn’t even noted him slipping into the room. That showed you how distracted I’d been.

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