CHAPTER THREE
Asphodel crept toward her home. Had her mother returned from Daisy’s?
Luck was with her. As she entered the house, she glanced in each of the rooms she passed. No sign of her mother. Her father would be at work, of course. Perhaps Daisy had gone into labour. Or maybe her mother had gone out to get something.
Asphodel frowned. Maybe she had gone to look for her daughter.
She slipped into her bedroom unnoticed and took her jewellery from the box on her dressing table. There were a few necklaces and a medallion to Grillon, the god of nature and wild things. A ruby and diamond ring lay at the bottom of the box. Asphodel picked it up. The large ruby sat in the centre of a ring of small diamonds.
“Grandma, would you have approved of me eloping with Vass?” She sighed as she pla
