Page 8 of Black Willow Witch
Oh, God.Emberlyn didn’t dare look at either of the twins, knowing she’d otherwise burst out laughing.
Dez did a long blink. ‘She . . . are you serious?’
Kage leaned into Emberlyn. ‘She’s left everything to the cat, I’m telling ya.’
‘I am merely reading what it says,’ said Reena.
Ames, to you I bequeath my chessboard – it’s the perfect game for sneaky fu . . . people who think to outmaneuver their grandmother. By the way, I do appreciate you wiping my ass that one time.
Paisley dipped her head as she audibly choked on a giggle.
Ames’s cheeks flushed with anger. ‘This is a joke,’ he bit off. ‘It’s obviously a joke.’
Reena hurried on,
Mari, the dragonfly brooch you stole from me and keep in your jewelry box is now rightfully yours. P.S. I don’t know why you thought I wouldn’t know that it was you who’d taken it.
Mari’s jaw dropped. ‘Sheknew? But . . . she never said anything.’
Probably because she’d concluded that Mari had done it for attention. Millicent wasn’t in the business of giving anyone anything they wanted.
Kage, my Ouija board awaits you. Use it soon. We can stay in touch.
Tickled by that, Emberlyn nudged him. ‘Now you can talk to the dead again.’
‘Well, ain’t that great,’ he deadpanned.
Paisley, my Aztec coin collection now belongs to you. Don’t spend it all at once.
The brunette’s lips curved in genuine delight. ‘Awesome.’
Emberlyn, my collection of voodoo dolls is now yours. You may also have your mother’s pearl earrings if you take care of Lucie. Don’t disappoint her as you have done me.
Emberlyn rolled her eyes at the latter sentence. As for the dolls and earrings? It was more than she’d hoped for. She’d wanted the earrings since she was a child, but Millicent had rarely gifted people anything . . . as if to do any good deeds would diminish her power.
‘This can’t be right,’ Gill adamantly stated. ‘Itcan’t. Or it’s an old will, I don’t know, but this is all wrong. She swore the house would be mine!’
‘She also swore it would be mine,’ Dez curtly remarked. ‘Said that though she couldn’t regret treading down her chosen path, she did wish I hadn’t suffered for it. Said—’
‘That she wanted to soothe the wound by leaving you the manor as an apology?’ asked Gill.
His gaze sharpened. ‘Soothe the wound, yes. She said the same to you?’
Sighing, Gill nodded. ‘More fool us for thinking she meant any of it.’
Mari sat back, putting a hand to her forehead. ‘Oh my God, she really did hate us all, didn’t she? I used to think that it was an act; an effort to hide that she had a soft underbelly.’
Hank put a hand over hers. ‘No, sweetheart, she hated everyone. What else does the will state, Reena?’
Rubbing at her wrist, the High Priestess went on,
Jax Stone, to you I bequeath both the land that once belonged to your clan—
She cut herself off, her face darkening. ‘No, that isn’t possible. Millicent can’t do that.’
Ripper fluidly straightened in his seat, his entire being practically perking up in interest.
The jaws of Emberlyn’s paternal family all but hit the floor, as did that of Ward.
