Chapter 403 - Ethel Greengrass Ⅱ (2/2)

”Well, is the curse gone?!” Snapped, Edna triumphantly at her cousin.

”I can't believe it,” Henrietta whispered in awe. ”The curse is truly gone.”

”That's just not possible!” Edna exclaimed. ”The one who cast the curse in the first place would have to remove it, and we have been cursed for centuries. It's impossible for that witch or wizard to still be alive much less remove it!”

”Or a descendant,” Benedict thoughtfully interrupted his niece, his brother's daughter.

”But why now?” Edna cried out.

”I don't know,” Benedict said with a shrug. ”And I really don't care as long as I can now rest easy knowing that all of my precious girls are all safe now.” Turning towards his grandmama, he says, ”We should inform the other Greengrass branches as well.”

”Yes,” Ethel tiredly said gesturing for him to aid her in returning back the way they came. However, not before first bowing to Hawk Mother and giving her thanks one last time.

Trudging back across the icy path, the group is filled with hushed whispered conversations. The fiercest among them is that of Mordecai and his children, Salinger, and Edna.

”I'm telling you that it shouldn't be possible,” Edna fiercely whispered through her teeth.

”Well, I for one agree with my precious daughter,” Mordecai dotingly said earning a sweet grin from his favorite daughter.

Salinger much more solemn and composed than his father says, ”Well, I hate to say this, but I think you are both wrong and are only trying to make a point. Henrietta is many things, but she is not a fool, and is a rather talented healer that she wouldn't make such a rudimentary mistake.”

”How can you take someone's side over your own sister?!” Edna wailed in anger.

”Because you are wrong, but your pride just won't allow you or father to admit such a thing,” Salinger drily stated out loud.

Turning to her father, Edna pouts and says, ”Daddy!”

”There, their pumpkin,” Mordecai consoled his daughter shooting his son a dirty look. ”Daddy will get to the bottom of everything!”

Salinger manages to refrain from rolling his eyes in exasperation just in time. He knew that there was no point in arguing with the two of them. They would just end up earning grandmama's wrath for good reason. At least after Grandmama finally lectured them, they would thankfully behave themselves for a month or so.

Still, what could he do? They were family. And we don't always get to pick and choose, who we would like.