Beltane (The Wicked Garden #3)

by Lenora Henson

“You’re doing much soul work. You’re bringing yourself close to nature, which I can tell fills you up and connects you with Self. You’re reestablishing your creative life. You’re surrounding yourself with people who love and inspire you, instead of the mindless leeches whose mediocrity sucked from you like vampires at a blood bank yard sale. You’re mothering your child with grace and tenacity. You’re gazing into your lover’s eyes and seeing truth. All this is good, but there are still many open wounds that need healing. They are old, ancient wounds, and while you may have physical scars to prove that they happened, on the inside those wounds haven’t healed either. You can admit now that they’re there–that you no longer deny–but you aren’t doing what it takes to heal them completely. You aren’t taking complete responsibility for the mending. The scars have served their bigger purpose, Kittycat. I think you and I both know it’s time to let them heal over already, the way nature intended.”