Eternal Love Book Five: Witch Love

Chapter One: A Witch Amidst Puritans

Two children born at the same time, to anyone else it would be a blessing. To the town of Salem Massachusetts and its close-minded people, it was more like a dark omen. Lilliana May Whitefall and her cousin Ruby Amelia Whitefall were born on the same day at the same time. Of course, to make the towns people even more uneasy these girls were born on what the Puritans referred to as the devil's day, October 31st.

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A day where witches were known to dance naked underneath a full moon, as they said their chants and practiced their sinful magic. The Puritans had wiped out most of the witches hundreds of years, or so they thought. Most of the men and women they had killed were completely innocent.

It was usually the ones pointing the finger that were the actual witches. If the Whitefall brothers had known the twin sisters they were getting involved with were witches they would have started the fire to burn them at the stake themselves. The sisters Vanessa and Francis were smart. They had kept their powers hidden from everyone, even their parents, so when their daughters were born, they knew they would be just as special, and in just as much danger as the sister had once almost been in. The love spells they used on the two brothers was the only thing that had saved them.

Once the spells had worn off it didn’t matter the brothers had married them and they were both pregnant. It wasn’t just the love spell; the brothers did love their wives and the birth of their daughters brought them more joy. Their families were well off and the two girls were treated like princesses. Their childhood was happy, they were good little girls who did their chores and behaved.

Ruby was very protective of Lilliana who everyone called Lilly. As they got older Lilly and Ruby became little troublemakers. They got into mischief all the time, thankfully their mothers would catch them before their fathers did. Especially when the girls had accidental outbursts of magic. Their mothers had been teaching them since birth to keep their powers hidden from everyone. But as hard as the girls tried sometimes it couldn’t be helped.

Especially when it came to Lilly. She could sit in a grassy field and if she allowed herself to get to comfortable the area around her would bloom with flowers of all kinds. After it happened the first time Lilly wasn't allowed to be left alone. Ruby always had to be with her, by the time they turned ten Lilly had grown powerful.

She was far more powerful than Ruby, but she learned to control it for the most part. On the day of their eleventh birthday the first dream of many came for Lilly. She was a princess from Egypt, then a queen, she had love, a child, heartbreak and then a horrible death by snakebite. Lilly woke up in a feverish sweat and she cried out for her mother. Vanessa came running into the room worried that Lilly had lost control again.

When she saw the look of fear on her daughter’s face, she wrapped her arms around her and hugged her tightly.

“What's wrong my sweet flower?” Her mother asks her.

Lilly sniffled, “My dream, I remember it. I was princess then a queen, I was happy I found true love, had a child, and then lost her. Then I was bitten by a snake and I died from the poison.” Lilly says quietly.

Her mother continues consoling her, “It was just a dream, nothing more.”

But Lilly knew better, she shook her head, and then showed her mother the thing that had made her scream. On her leg near her ankle was the perfect, thinnest, palest outline of a snake bite. Vanessa let out a gasp, perhaps there was more to this dream than she thought.

“Tomorrow we will talk to your Aunt Francis and see what she says. She knows more about dreams than I do. Whatever you do, don’t tell your father about this. Do you understand?” Her mother asks.

Lilly nods, she knew that some secrets between her and her mother could never be shared with her fathers, it was a matter of life and death.

She fell back asleep to the sound of her mother humming, and as hard as she tried to clear her thoughts the dream continued to replay over and over in her head...