The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 75

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The priestess turned her head to look at Jacqueline as she stepped next to her.

“Sister.” The priestess whispered as if reverently.

“Sister,” Jacqueline returned the form of address.

“So much was hidden from me in regard to your disappearance. It was as if the creator herself was blocking things.”

“The Queen Mother wanted it this way.”

“You feel her.”

“I do. With every passing moment there is more I see and

feel.”

“There is a block.”

“Yes.”

“To remove it will be painful.”

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“While I was praying I was given visions,” the priestess spoke softly. “Jacinta,” she let her voice trail off.

“Yes.”

“She is jealous.”

“She is.”

“There is remorse in her.”

“I feel it.” Jacqueline agreed.

“There is not enough of it.”

“I feel that too.”

“First, we must bring all your powers to the front. It will allow us to restore your connection to,” the priestess smiled, “the Queen Mother.”

Jacqueline nodded. “The Queen Mother herself put this block on me to keep me from exposing my abilities in the human world. Over the years, I made it worse by shutting myself off 2/14

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from others because I didn’t want to get hurt. There is a block there I put myself, but it’s mixed in with the magic of the Queen Mother.”

“She was trying to protect you, and you made it worse.” The priestess turned completely to face Jacqueline now to look straight into her eyes and then gasped, “you can see her.”

Jacqueline gave a single nod, “I feel her more than I see

her but in my mind, I know exactly what she looks like. It

happened as soon as I stepped past the threshold into the garden here. The longer I am here, the stronger the

connection.”

“You are,” the priestess was in awe, “so powerful.”

“I know.”

“Jacinta is going to freak out.”

The words from the priestess sounded uncharacteristic of what Jacqueline expected of her, and it made Jacqueline

giggle.

“She is definitely going to freak out.” Jacqueline agreed with

the priestess. She turned her head to look at Jack who was 3/14

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staring at her worriedly.

“He loves you.” The priestess followed her gaze. “You got off to a rocky start, but he loves you.”

“I know. It’s why I need him here. His love, his concern is what will bring me back.”

“You are scared you will not return.”

“Yes.”

“Not even for your mates?”

Jacqueline looked away, “there is so much pressure to being a mate and I,” her voice faltered.

“You fear you are not enough for two mates and your lack of understanding of the mate bond, the way you have not responded to them the way they responded to you, is making you doubt whether your bond is as real as theirs.”

“I feel this,” she waved around the pool, “with far more intensity than I do the bond with my mates.”

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blood bond. You are biologically connected to the Frost family, born of them but you were put there, in Winika’s womb by the Queen Mother herself. Your physical connection is the Frost, but you are the being the Queen Mother herself personally created and implanted. You are as much her daughter as you are Winika’s, perhaps more so. You are of their body but the soul of you, is hers.”

Jacqueline nodded, “yes. I share blood of the Frost family, but

I am the bloom of the Queen Mother.”

“To remove the spell, you need to let go and return to your

mother.”

“Yes.” She looked back at Jack and then took a breath. “It

is time, priestess. You knew this day would come. You must break the spell.”

“It will hurt,” the priestess said softly, “letting go of your life force, the breath which tethers you to the realm of the living, will cause you immense pain.”

“I can take it.”

“I have no doubt.”

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The priestess held Jacqueline’s hand as they woded deeper into the wores Jacqueline turned to give Jack another look, and he suddenly seemed to understand what she was going

to do and he bellowed

Jacqueline, don’t you fucking dare! No!

“Aspen, keep him there! Jack, pray for me. I will come back if you pray for me!

No. Jec, I am begging you do not do this. There is another way. There must be another way, he was starting towards the pool, but the priestess put up a barrier which blocked him stepping into the water. “Jack” he screamed of her. “Get out

here nowt

“Pray for me Jock she called as the priestess nodded at her and she willingly submerged herself under the water. The frigid temperature strangely soothing her skin, she sunk, dropping to her knees until they touched the bottom of the

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Hands on her shoulders and the muffled sound of the priestess‘ chanting made her tense and she tried valiantly to not panic as her lungs started to burn. The longer she stayed under the water, the louder the chanting, the tighter the hold 6/14

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the priestess forced on her. The urge to surface made her

eyes open under the water, her hands clawing at the hands

holding her under.

“Jacqueline.”

The sound was muted, a call from a voice she knew but

never heard before. An impossible need to chase the sound

distracted her from her need for air. She closed her eyes and

tried to breathe to calm herself but swallowed water instead.

The priestess‘ hands squeezed and pushed, holding her

down.

Then when Jacqueline’s thrashing was no more under the water, the priestess pulled her still body upwards and dragged her to the altar at the foot of the statue of the

Queen Mother and lay her face up, hands folded over her

chest.

The priestess turned to Jack who was pounding on the barrier with his fists, kicking it with his feet and screaming with veins. cording at his neck, “it is time to pray.”

Jacqueline stood watching the scene, disembodied and strangely calm.

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“I look like I am at peace.

“You are my child.”

The musical lilt to the voice made Jacqueline slowly turn and face the direction from where it came. In turning she found herself in the most extraordinary garden and Jacqueline moved towards a bush of fragrant roses. She leaned over them and inhaled the scent, letting it fill her nostrils.

“Beautiful.”

“Come closer, my child. I feel you are too far away from me.”

“You gave me life,” Jacqueline trailed her fingers along the vines and smiled as the blooms attached seemed to stretch towards her for her to pay them attention. She stopped to stroke them gently and allowed the vines to twist and turn around her arms and ankles as if they were hugging her before letting go.

“I did give you life, my essence. You are my true daughter, Jacqueline Frost, born of the Frost bloodline. I considered simply blooming you straight from an orchid, I do love an orchid, but it occurred to me in order for you to do what needs to be done, you needed to be born of a fae.” 8/14

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Jacqueline continued to follow the voice which floated all around her. She realized the vines were guiding her, leading her along the footpath through the elaborate garden until she found herself in the middle. A woman sat on a soft mossy

bed staring in her direction.

Her platinum blonde hair hung in silken tresses down her back and her eyes, one brown, one blue, were wide and

bright and as shiny as the hair on her crown. Her expression was serene and yet a joy shone from her features at the sight of Jacqueline.

“It has been so long since I had a child of my own.”

Jacqueline fell to her knees in front of the woman, “Mother.”

“My child,” tender fingers reached out and stroked Jacqueline’s brow, “you are beautiful. I knew Winika would

produce a beautiful child on my behalf.”

“Thank you,” Jacqueline couldn’t tear her gaze away from the

woman. “I am of you.”

“You are of me. You are also of them. We are bound by a celestial bond. They bind you to the earthly bond.”

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“My heart hurt for so long, Jacqueline whispered, “why did you leave me there?”

“You are my child but also the vessel of my soul, Jacqueline. I need you to right the wrongs, teach them their divisive

behaviors are not uniting of the fae. They were never meant to be segregated and declaring themselves superior over

one another. They need rulers and space to allow them to

grow and expand but not to create hate and kingdoms which

try to take over one another.”

“You mean the Frosts and the Vaughns.”

“You were meant to be the tie to bring the two families together, Jacqueline.”

“You couldn’t simply put Jack and River together?”

“They would kill each other in minutes. They are too much

alike.”

“It didn’t go as planned,” Jacqueline sighed loudly, “Jacinta

hates me and got rid of me.”

“Jacinta fears you Jacqueline. On the day of your birth, she

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was helping the nurse and while your father tended to your mother you were placed in Jacinta’s arms. Her gifts manifested and she saw the greatness of who you were meant to be, and she saw you were going to cause a rift between her and her family and her friends. She has always enjoyed being the spoiled, pampered princess. She was jealous of Aspen for taking the attention her big brother always gave her.”

“Where is her mate?”

“Jacinta’s path was known to me from her birth. I always knew she would try to sabotage you with your mates. She

does not want a romantic relationship with your mates but

rather she wants all of the attention on herself. She is jealous

of any woman who enters a space and takes the attention off

her. She fears you, Jacqueline because you will expose her

for the embarrassment to her family that she is.”

“You did not answer the question. Why does she not yet have

her own mate?”

“Her mate deserved better.”

“You took her bond away.”

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“I did. There were two paths which I could see for Jacinta. The first was you were born, she saw your future, she stole you from your family and kept your mates and your family from being with you until the time you were discovered. The other path was she would see your future, she would not intervene and she would be a good sister, a strong sister, grow and flourish as a fae and become powerful and strong in her own right as a priestess.”

“She was meant to be a priestess.”

“Yes. Your birth was meant to be the catalyst in her

discovering her gifts were blessings and she was to be thankful and atone for prior behaviors.”

“Prior behaviors, like the way she treated Aspen.”

“And anyone who did not have the luxurious life she enjoys.”

“She chose the wrong path.”

“And as a result, loses all the blessings a priestess would enjoy. She lost all her powers. She lost her blood bind with her family though they haven’t realized it yet because they are still consumed with the grief of losing you. Despite throwing you away, she was still left to the wayside because 12/14

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her family was even more consumed with you. Her mate was given to someone else, a woman who will love and treasure him for who he is.”

“Was I always meant to be with Wilder and Rafferty?”

“Yes. Always. All roads for you bring you to them and them to you. You are the blessing which brings two realms together and your daughter will be the true merging of the powerful bloodline.” The Queen Mother smiled, “with a touch of her grandmother’s essence.”

Jacqueline nodded quietly as she felt the vines and flowers approaching her again, swirling around her and grasping at her as if soothing her, reassuring her that she was where she was meant to be.

“I feel loved here.”

The quiet comment had the Queen Mother nodding, “you are loved here. You are my true heir, my true child. All the others have died off, old age and lives well lived. They all want to be near you. You are loved.”

“It is nice to be loved instead of hated and scorned.”

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