A Tail of Murder (A Wildwood Witch Mystery Book 1) by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

9

Despite Mum’s orders for everyone to leave the witches’ headquarters, there were an awful lot of people in the grounds when Ramsey and I went outside. While nobody would have admitted to searching for the ghost of our former Head Witch, they’d gathered in groups to peer through windows or climb over hedges. When I saw several people enter the maze, I rolled my eyes. “If anyone else falls into the fountain, it’ll be entirely their own fault.”

Ramsey approached the maze and raised his voice. “Get out of there. The maze is still off-limits.”

The group of witches ignored him, disappearing among the high hedges. Ramsey exhaled in a sigh then muttered something under his breath. A cloud of birds descended from the sky onto the maze, and a moment later, the witches emerged in a shrieking mass, batting the birds away from their heads. A grin came to my mouth. Ramsey rarely used his magic these days, preferring to wield the law instead, but sometimes the situation called for it.

“Want me to get Tansy to chase them off?” I asked him.

“No need,” he said. “They weren’t looking for our grandmother’s ghost in there. I think they were trying to sneak a look around the fountain.”

“You don’t think Tessa’s ghost might make an appearance?” I couldn’t resist approaching the maze myself and peering through the hedges.

“No,” Ramsey said. “She wasn’t a very strong witch.”

He walked towards the maze without telling me to leave, so I assumed we’d made a temporary truce. At least it gave me the chance to temporarily defrost the ice which had sprung up between us following his unfounded accusations. Speaking of which, he had yet to apologise for that, but until we found the person who’d actually blabbed to the press, I had no way to prove my innocence.

Besides, Grandma’s ghost had brought a more pressing issue to deal with. She was nowhere to be found inside the maze and didn’t appear to be anywhere else in the grounds, either.

“Might she have gone home?” I asked.

Ramsey began to head back towards the coven’s headquarters. “Did she ever voluntarily leave work early in her life?”

“Fair point,” I acknowledged. “Ghosts tend to stick to haunting one place, don’t they? Though she is a former Head Witch, so she might be stronger than the average spirit.”

“Strong or not, she thinks she’s still Head Witch. She’s more likely to have gone into her office than anywhere else.”

We weren’t the only people who’d had that thought, it seemed. Inside the coven’s headquarters, we found a number of witches and wizards roaming the lobby. Grandma’s office door was unlocked, as we discovered when Ramsey opened it to reveal Stacy crouching near the cabinet at the back.

Grandma’s former assistant jumped when we entered, dropping an armful of herbs on the floor.

“Are you raiding Grandma’s ingredient supplies?” Ramsey eyed the herbs in her arms. “What’re those for?”

“I thought your mum might want to try summoning her ghost,” she mumbled.

I gave the ingredients a closer look. “Sage repels ghosts.

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