Chapter 53

Merga was troubled as she went to her room, so much that her knees began to knock and her heart began to pound inside her chest. She had very good reason to believe that it was her leaving the house that made Mother Eleanor's suspicion rise like that, and she had very good reason to believe that Cynthia knew what was going on. When she got into her small room, she crashed on the bed and began to think things through. The likely punishment for interaction with a human was expulsion from the coven. And if possible, the human could be killed. She could not let that happen. She had been in the coven for too long, had gotten used to its ways, and its people. And she couldn't let any harm come to Robert. Especially not with the way she was feeling for him. She thought about him trying to kiss her and her lips spread in a smile. She had wanted it, that moment of shared intimacy. But she knew that it was a slippery slope, and doing something like that would be the beginning in a s