Any Witch Way She Can by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

At first, Randy laughed, but when Michael and Adele didn’t join in, just sat there watching her with intense expressions, she fell silent. When she finally spoke, her voice sounded slow and uncertain, even to her. “You’re serious. That pompous twit?”

“Absolutely.” He nodded. “It’s why I came to this meeting tonight.”

Damn it, Randy thought, this sucked. It was one thing for her to plot the old woman’s humiliation, but she’d be damned if she’d put up with anyone else doing it. This wave of protectiveness she felt toward her grandmother was unprecedented and unsettling. She wasn’t at all sure she liked it, or liked Michael for setting it in motion.

“I asked Michael to help me,” Adele said, “just as I planned to ask your cousin and her husband. We may think we know who is causing all of this trouble, but we can hardly stop him without evidence.”

Randy looked at Michael. “And what’s your plan? What do you get out of this? The guy you suspect of being behind this is your uncle. Are you going to try to intervene before anyone else finds out so that you can hush everything up and spare your family from the rest of the community knowing your uncle is a power-hungry sleazeball?”

“Miranda, that was uncalled for!”

Michael shook his head. “No. You might find this hard to believe, Randy, but I like your grandmother, and I have a lot of respect for her. I don’t think she deserves what Harold has been doing to her.”

“‘Has been doing’ to her? This has been going on for a while?”

“Nearly six months, we think. It was a while before anyone recognized the pattern of what was happening, and another two months before we were able to narrow it down to a manageable list of suspects. So we’ve only had three weeks or so to figure out what’s been going on.”

When Michael stopped and just looked at her with those killer blue eyes gone all patient and expectant, Randy sighed. Damn it, he was going to try to make her be the bigger person here, wasn’t he? “Fine,” she broke down, “I don’t suppose you’d care to explain it all to me?”

At least he had the grace not to allow his expression of satisfaction to linger. “As you said before, Adele takes her position on the Council of Others very seriously. It’s something that’s quite important to her.”

No one needed to tell Randy that. From what she could tell, the Council had always been more important to Adele than most of her own family.

“I feel very strongly that I have a responsibility not only to uphold the legacy of our family, of all the other Foxwomen in our lineage who have served the same role, but also to make a contribution to the way the Others are adjusting to their new place in society,” Adele said. She sounded more plausible than most presidents Randy had ever heard. “I’m sure you know what a pivotal point in history we’re currently going through.

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