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“You’re not normal, and it’s past time for you to let go of that delusion.” Rosa stood and walked to the door. “When you’re ready, if you want my help, you know where to find me.”
“I’m not sure I’m allowed off the compound.”
“Not allowed off the compound to visit la Aquelarre’s wise woman? I think I’d have something to say about that. You send Luciana my way if it’s not allowed.”
I cracked a grin. Rosa might be old, but she still had her wits and sass. “I’ll think about it.”
I opened the door for her, and she patted my cheek. “I’ll be seeing you soon.”
I was still sitting on the couch, trying to absorb Rosa’s words when Daniel stepped into the house. His morning lessons must’ve been done. I glanced at my watch. How long had I been staring into space?
He started chatting about the spells he wanted to try today, but I held a hand up.
“Dude. Four days of trying something and getting the same results…don’t you think we’ve had enough? I mean, a hole in the roof? Really?”
He crossed his arms. “You’re giving up?”
I shrugged.
“Didn’t you break the curse on Meredith?”
“Yeah. But I majorly fucked up when I tried to use magic to do it. She almost died. I used my normal powers plus some Were stuff to actually break it.” I rubbed my eyes, trying to make sense of everything. “Maybe I’m messing everything up so badly because I didn’t grow up around spells and magic, but some of this stuff…it’s just not working for me.”
“Well you have to learn it.”
“Says who?”
He looked away from me with a sigh. “Says my mother.”
I snorted. “Yeah, okay.” I hoped the sarcasm was thick enough for him to pick up on it. “You’ve been really nice to me and I’ve had fun, but I’m not sure that we’re getting anywhere with these lessons. I keep getting it wrong. I follow the all the steps, and I get the complete inverse reaction. Do you think it’s because of the Were in me?”
He uncrossed his arms as he thought. “You might be on to something.”
“I thought so. The thing is, I got more control over my natural abilities when I became a Were. That could’ve come with a cost.”
“That’s a really smart theory. How did you come up with it?”
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. As much as people’ve called me crazy, I don’t think I actually am.” I smiled. “If something’s not working, it’s time to try something else. Plus, Tia Rosa came by earlier. She said I needed to work on strengthening my natural abilities.” I started walking to the spell room. “Any chance there’s a book on that in here?”
“Claudia?” Daniel yelled through the house.
“Yeah,” she answered as she came down the stairs. “What’s up?”
“Do you have anything on sight here? I think I have a few books at my house, but my mom’ll be pissed if she sees that we’re working on something that’s not on the prescribed list.” His cheeks got a little pink.
“Prescribed list?”
He got redder. “She’s a little controlling.”
I gave him a bland stare. “I’ve noticed.”
We followed Claudia into the craft room. “Should have something here,” she said as she got down on her hands and knees and started searching through the piles of books under the worktable.
I shook my head. This was no way to store books. Someone needed to do some reorganization. I knelt down on the floor beside her and started digging through the piles.
After what felt like forever searching and coming up with nothing, Claudia dusted off her hands. “There’s another place I can check. Hang on.”
I stood up from where I was digging through the books, and Claudia came back with a box.
