Bountiful Magic: Myrtlewood Mysteries Book 6 by Iris Beaglehole

Author:Iris Beaglehole [Beaglehole, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-30T13:00:00+00:00

Thirty

Later that afternoon Marjie came to the chocolate shop. “I’m sorry, love,” she said, standing in the entrance.

Rosemary put down the spatula she was holding and went over to the door to hug her friend.

Marjie was in tears. “When I heard you say that about Liam, I realised you were right. I remember him as a little boy, as a baby even. He was the toddler falling over and hurting his knee. I fixed it up for him and gave him a little jam scone. You should have seen the smile on his face…Oh, little Liam. And now...Well. He’s been a werewolf for all these years and managed to protect everyone from the danger associated. He’s done well, hasn’t he?”

“Yes, I think he has,” said Rosemary. “I only found out by accident. You see…” She explained about running into Liam and the bookshop.

“Well, that was mighty dangerous, wasn’t it?” said Marjie.

“I think so,” said Rosemary. “But if nobody else in town had that kind of encounter with him in all those years, at least to our knowledge, then he did a good job of keeping it under control. And besides, my magic seemed to help him. We were making some progress on that.”

“Well, that is marvellous,” said Marjie. “With that, he might not have been a risk at all.”

“Exactly,” said Rosemary.

“Oh, poor Liam,” said Marjie.

It turned out they didn’t need Papa Jack’s empathy chocolate after all. Or at least Marjie didn’t.

Rosemary had a few more of the heart-opening truffles just because they were so delicious. She and Margie had a cup of tea together and made up from their argument.

“You really think this treaty could be good news?” asked Marjie, taking a sip of the rose tea Rosemary had made her specially.

“Definitely,” said Rosemary. “You know as much about it as I do, anyway.”

“Well, you’ve told me bits and pieces,” said Marjie. “Though I didn’t even know it was the same thing the mayor was talking about.”

“Exactly,” said Rosemary. “He’s really got no idea, or if he does know, he’s been very misleading.”

“Oh, Don,” said Marjie. “Don June. He’s always been a bit of a weasel, hasn’t he?”

“You’d know better than me,” said Rosemary. “You don’t suppose he could have…”

“Could have what?” asked Marjie.

“I don’t know,” said Rosemary. “I was just wondering about why that monster appeared in town the other day. Do you think the mayor could have had something to do with it?”

“I don’t know,” said Marjie. “Seems a little bit far, doesn’t it? Why would he want to be doing anything like that?”

Rosemary shrugged. “A good way to drum up votes. When you’ve got competition, perhaps?”

“A little bit extreme, isn’t it?” said Marjie.

“I suppose so,” said Rosemary.

“You don’t think he was up to mischief last night? There was certainly dark magic in the air.”

“Oh,” said Rosemary. “No, I’m afraid that might have been me by mistake. I was trying to figure out the origin of those spells, you see, and I might have just been…it was a small thing.

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