Boozehounds and Ball Drops (Mystic's End Mysteries Book 6) by Leanne Leeds

Author:Leanne Leeds [Leeds, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950505272
Publisher: Badchen Publishing
Published: 2020-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

“Well, it’s about time,” Miss Bessie scoffed as Jeeves and I made our way back inside. “What took you two so long?”

“Is that the vampire?” Mary asked her mother, pointing to Jeeves who walked in quietly behind me. “My goodness. He’s quite attractive. I wasn’t expecting that.”

“That’s him.” Miss Bessie tilted her head. “Sure, not a bad looking young man, but I don’t trust him. We definitely do not want him to have his psychic tendrils in Pepper,” she announced, crossing her arms. “Not only isn’t it good for her, but it also puts all of us at risk. He’ll be able to hear us through her.”

“You remember he can hear you now, right?” I raised an eyebrow at the old woman.

“You’re suggesting an absurdity,” Mary told me, her eyes narrowing. “Vampires can’t see ghosts.”

I bit my tongue for a second before I snapped off a retort I would regret.

It was becoming increasingly evident that Mary Wilcox was not the sweetness-and-light angelic figure Miss Bessie and Gabe painted her as. The woman was quick to judge and even quicker to pass that judgment with the same finality her mother had mastered over the years. Mary was acerbic bordering on haughty—only without Miss Bessie’s cantankerous old lady charm.

“Ask him,” I told her finally, pointing to Jeeves. “Or ask your mother. But I assure you Jeeves can hear and see you the same as I can.” I looked around. “Where’s Spike?”

Mary leveled a steady stare at me. “We left him back at your shop to make sure no one broke anything.”

“He’ll come and get us if there’s an issue,” Miss Bessie added. “Now, we need to talk about your terrible idea. Have you been working on your magic behind my back? Or did you really call that man here to drink your friend with no plan of what to do about the bond after?”

“I didn’t know there was anything I could do about the bond.”

Ollie shoved his chair away from the library table and got to his feet, turning his back to me.

Gabe may be right that he would calm down, but that clearly hadn’t happened yet.

“Maybe we should talk over here,” Miss Bessie said, her sidelong glance toward Ollie making it clear why she wanted to move. “Tell Gabe and the vampire to stay here—”

“No,” Jeeves told the old woman quietly.

“Did you just tell me no, vampire?” Miss Bessie’s voice raised an octave or two.

“The three of you are going to discuss manipulating the bond between Pepper and me should I take some of her blood,” Jeeves said quietly, his voice passive—but threaded through with a determined will that gave gravitas to his words. “That is not something you’re going to discuss outside my hearing. I want to know exactly what Fortuna is planning on doing before I will agree to it.”

A sharp pain pierced my stomach, and for the first time, I was nervous. Unless this witch and magic thing concerned art or saving on building construction costs, I didn’t use it much.

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