Chapter 136. Summons from A Witch

Rose’s POV

For what felt like the hundredth time in the past few hours, Rose paced along the narrow length of her cottage, her brows furrowed as her boots tapped heavily on the worn stone floor.

It had been hours since she had seen Aria off, and Rose had spent every single minute since then being lost in her thoughts. Every time she tried to do something else, her mind always circled back to the same thought.

She might have spoken to Aria with confidence about her suspicion that she had seen a shadow and her other suspicion that the shadow might be her mother. But now? With every single minute that passed, she lost confidence in what she thought she had seen.

And it certainly didn’t help matters that her instincts were practically silent whenever she tried to get information through it.

Memory had always been a tricky thing for her. Even now, as she thought back to her washing by the whitevale’s creek, she wasn’t sure that what she actually saw w