Charmed Caper: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Witches of Gales Haven Book 3) by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

After setting down the shoebox lid containing fourteen excitable hedgehogs—and yes, I was counting Mindy, who was currently yelling at me—on one of the low-slung coffee tables, I cracked my neck and studied the lineup of dancers and fighters.

“You can’t just set us down here like we’re objects,” Mindy barked at me.

Without turning to look at her, I said, “Mindy, do you really think it’s smart to endanger your kids when these witches and wizards are clearly out of control? I doubt they’d even notice your kids if they were underfoot. They’re out of their minds. They could squash your kids and not even realize it.”

Mindy gasped in theatrical fashion behind me, but I didn’t have time for her at the moment. She could gasp and be pissed all she wanted, what I said was the truth. At least half the people in the coffee shop weren’t in their right mind, and I wasn’t about to be responsible for getting little cute hedgehogs killed. If Mindy led them into battle, then that was on her, not my conscience. Though I didn’t think she would. Mindy was smart, and this place was stupid dangerous for anyone their size.

“Yo, RIP, let’s flick it!” Winnie sang, and Ice Ice Baby beat out in the café—kind of. These magic users knew just enough of the words to butcher them, spitting them out like they were Vanilla Ice in the flesh—if he were drunk and slurring the lyrics to his trademark song.

I walked away from Mindy and her complaints, telling Wanda: “Come on. Help me wrangle the twins.”

Wanda was right behind me, shuffling to talk next to my ear so I would hear over the loud singing. “But how?” she asked, sounding frantic, an emotional state I didn’t think I’d ever seen her in before. “You saw what they did to Sven and Goober. They’ll just knock us around too.”

“No they won’t.” I swiped an abandoned dessert fork, crusted with cheesecake filling, from a table as I passed it, and clutched it like the weapon it’d just become.

By the time I positioned myself behind Minnie and Winnie, Bambi had stopped trying to stab them with her foam sword and was rapping too, dancing to their improvised beat like she was in her twenties again.

Eight other patrons joined them, so intently focused on what they were doing that I knew they’d either misplaced their marbles too, or were fast on their way to losing them.

Mo Ellen, Sven, and Goober watched the show, stunned—as did the remaining sane patrons of the café. I didn’t blame them. Watching these middle-aged—and much older—witches and wizards knocking their version of Ice Ice Baby out of the park was strangely mesmerizing. I wanted to take a seat and watch this and whatever they transitioned into next. They would keep going, I was sure of it. They showed no signs of stopping.

“Man,” I grumbled to myself. “Such a shame to put an end to this.”

Wanda must have heard me, even over the impromptu singalong, because she sputtered.

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