Wild Need by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant [Donna Grant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DL Grant, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

It wasn’t possible. Davena wasn’t powerful enough to even think about going up against someone like Delphine. She looked into Beau’s fierce blue eyes and wished he were still beside her. His warmth and comfort were all that kept her from losing herself.

“You’re mistaken.” She took a large swallow of the bourbon and felt it burn down her throat and settle warmly in her stomach. “I don’t have that kind of ability. My mother, perhaps.”

“And Delia?” Vincent asked.

Just thinking about her sister brought an ache to her chest. She wanted to cry for all the years her sister had lost, but no tears would come. Davena grinned ruefully. “She thought she did, but she didn’t. Our mother didn’t want either of us involved in what she did.”

“Which was what, exactly?” Christian asked.

When she heard Beau’s growl directed at his brother for such a question, it eased some of the numbness gripping her. She knew it had been Beau who came to her and placed his arm around her, who walked her to the truck, and who carried her inside the house. He had stayed with her, silent and patient.

“My mother got into the Voodoo religion when she was thirteen,” Davena said as she studied the gold liquid in her glass. “She had an affinity for the...other side of the religion. Soon, others were coming to her for spells and dolls. It wasn’t until she met my father when she was eighteen that something changed. She never told us what, but she backed away from the religion.”

Lincoln rubbed his hand over his jaw, his palm scratching along his whiskers. “I gather there were those upset by her move.”

“I guess.” Davena shrugged. “She didn’t like to talk about it. It was part of her past we knew never to speak of while growing up. A year later, when she was nineteen, she married my father and got out of Voodoo altogether. Yet people still came to her for help. That’s how she turned to Hoodoo. Some of her friends were being cursed because of their connection to her. She didn’t think that was fair, so she found a way to counter it.”

“Brave woman,” Beau said.

Everyone else in the room was forgotten as she looked at him. How she wanted to run her hands through his hair and draw him close. She imagined he would kiss like he lived – softly at first, and then full throttle. “She was. She put her very life on the line every day. She saved a lot of people in the process.”

“Did things change when you and Delia were born?” Ava asked.

Davena stiffened as she remembered it wasn’t just her and Beau. “Not really. My father owned a restaurant in the French Quarter, and mother went on as she was, bringing in a little extra money in the process. That continued until I was four. I don’t know why things changed that summer, but they did. It began when my father was killed in an alley outside his restaurant.

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