Betwixt: Paranormal Women's Fiction (Betwixt & Between Book 1) by Darynda Jones

Author:Darynda Jones [Jones, Darynda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734385212
Publisher: Feather & Leaf, LLC
Published: 2020-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

I was taught to think before I act.

So if I smack you, rest assured,

I’ve thought about it

and am confident in my decision.

-T-shirt

Gigi. I’d have to get used to that one. It felt right, though. Like I did indeed have someone in my life named Gigi at some point. It was probably her.

After an hour straight of failed attempts at the protection spell, Ruthie thought that maybe taking a shower and putting on something other than Frozen pajamas might help relax me. I did feel like my nerves resembled my hair after Annette had given me a perm in high school. Frazzled and crunchy.

The shower felt amazing. Not quite as amazing as when Roane helped me, but amazing nonetheless. I pulled back my impossibly thick, black hair, which was a bit on the nose for witchhood, and powdered my pale skin, making it look even paler. Dory Markham in high school used to call me a vampire. She wasn’t too far off the mark, apparently.

After throwing on my last clean pair of jeans, a tan sweater, and brown suede boots, I headed down to try to protect myself from evildoers.

Turned out, however, there was one little thing wrong with the protection spell Gigi wanted me to do. She didn’t know what it looked like. Not exactly, though she did have a couple of educated guesses.

“You don’t know?” she asked me after our first several failed attempts. Panic raised her voice an octave.

“No. I thought you knew.” I began panicking, too.

“I don’t know the language. I told you. It’s almost impossible to get any information. Charmlings are very well protected.”

“At least they know the spell.”

“You know it,” Gigi said, pacing back and forth. “Let’s think about this.” She stopped and assessed me. “Are you concentrating?”

“Of course. Just in case, tell me what to concentrate on again.”

She nodded in thought. “Okay, think about the fact that if you don’t get this spell up, there are witches out there who will come, suck the life out of you, and take your power for themselves.”

“They sound like my ex. Isn’t there some kind of authority to prevent such things? Some type of magical law enforcement?”

“Like a council that governs our every move?”

“Exactly.”

“No. There are for certain covens, but not for the witching world overall.”

“Well, I think that’s a terrible oversight. Someone needs to have our backs.”

“Or try to control us.”

“True. I guess.”

“There are powerful covens who take it upon themselves to govern here and there. For the most part, however, we’re on our own.”

“And you’re part of a coven, right?”

Her chin rose. “I am. You’ll meet them soon. They’re looking forward to it. Actually, some of them are downright giddy. Don’t be surprised if you acquire some serious fans. You have quite the fanbase.”

“How is that possible?”

“Because of me, partially, but mostly because of all you accomplished as a child.”

I stopped waving my arm like an idiot and turned back to her. “What I accomplished as a child? What do you mean? What did I accomplish as a child?”

“That is for another time.

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