Bella Donna: Coven Road

Bella Donna: Coven Road — page 5
baby although I can remember farther back than anyone else I know My first real memory is lying in my crib and looking up at a painted wooden lady with a pointy hat and four broomsticks flying around her The witch mobile had been left alongside me on that doorstep It kept me amused for hours My little hands and feet never tired of stretching up to try to touch it It was a wintry night and there was a storm outside I was awake just looking at my witch mobile dancing in the moonlight Sam the baby in the next crib started to snore babies snore an awful lot and make snuffly blocked-up-nose noises I looked at the pacifier stuffed in his mouth Every now and again he’d suck contentedly on it As I looked at Sam with the pacifier in his mouth I wanted that pacifier Oh how I wanted it I wanted it more than I’d wanted anything before 2