Davie the Mage (Generations of Eredwynn Book 2) by Daniel B. Harris Read Free Book Online Page A

lord of a castle. I was promised all the assistance that a big brother could offer. He’d had a good regent who led him gently into the job, but the rumor mill said that the regent at Perlsea was an overbearing jerk who might just walk out the minute I arrived. I hoped not because, even though I’d grown up in a castle, I hadn’t paid as much attention as I should have to running one. James also suggested that since my castle was a seaside castle and had no fishing industry, I could look into that. It would help with development and cash flow and had done just that for Kethos.
                  Finally the girls trooped in and I was given permission to return to my room. I said goodnight and made my way across the hall. Amber was already in bed so I undressed and crawled in beside her. She smiled at me and her eyes told me what she wanted. I put out the lights and made love to the woman I was to marry in the morning.
     
     
     
    Chapter Four
     
                   B right and early the next morning, my sweet big sister shook me awake. She told me to dress in my best clothes and get out. She would bring Amber to Wizard’s herself. I threw on my clothes and knocked on James’ apartment. Ivy let me in with a big grin.
                  Ivy said that she was supposed to keep me company while I waited for James. She let me know that she’d been talking to Amber about some Halfling girls who were interested in being consorts. She’d tried to get James to take them but they were only fifteen and sixteen. Since James was twenty-two, and nothing like our father in that respect, he didn’t want consorts that young. She told me that she thought that Amber had some strange ideas when it came to having consorts. She didn’t actually look down on girls who wanted to be, but she didn’t want any for herself or for me. I was informed that she’d started to open up to the idea slightly after spending the day with all of James’ girls and seeing how well they all got along.
                  I have always loved talking to Ivy. It wasn’t really like talking to a person, as in having a conversation. It was more like struggling to keep up with a one sided conversation going twice as fast as a normal human could think. All Halflings aren’t like that. I think it’s just another thing that makes Ivy special. After a couple hours James showed up and said that he was to escort me to Wizard’s Castle.
                  He ported us to the roof of the keep and said that we’d go down when summoned. The event was being held in the great hall even though there wouldn’t be a huge crowd. With my mother inviting people, there were sure to be plenty. James kept sticking his head through the roof access door and I floated myself into a sitting position, trying to maintain my calm. Divorce was unheard of in Eredwynn and so marriage was a huge step. If a nobleman with consorts cheated on his wife, he would be shunned but they would still be married. Neither one could remarry, so the shunned man would usually be forgiven, eventually. I loved Amber with all my heart, body and spirit and knew that I wanted to be with her forever.
                  James finally got his signal and we floated down to the back entrance of the great hall so we could come up behind the dais that was set up in there. James escorted me to the front of the stage where my father, mother and Aunt Isabel were standing. Soft, slow and solemn music started and my aunts, followed by James’ girls, started down the aisle. After they split off into the front rows of chairs, my gorgeous wife-to-be, in a beautiful gown, escorted by my sister Lia, came toward me. She was so lovely and I was so happy that my vision blurred with tears. I blinked them away rapidly so I could see and remember every moment. She came to me and we joined hands. I was lost in her eyes but managed to say the lines my father asked me to repeat. I