Charmed Nights by Kim Richardson

Author:Kim Richardson [Richardson, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kim Richardson

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My butt was numb.

Not from falling on the ground or from sitting on a cold surface outside for an hour, but from sitting on a hard chair inside until my buttock muscles stiffened, tingled, ached, and then finally went completely dull like I’d just shot myself with an anesthetic needle.

With my back to the wall, my right knee bounced up and down for the past hour and a half as I stared at the large black metal door to the conference room, waiting to see Ruth’s smiling face as she walked out.

Today was December seventh, and the Gray Council had arrived and set up their court proceedings in the Hollow Cove Security Agency’s conference room.

As it turned out, I was not allowed to attend the proceedings. Only Dolores and Beverly could attend since they’d been witnesses to Ruth’s gingerweed making.

Speaking of gingerweed, for the past two days I’d been in the kitchen, trying to remake Ruth’s tonic she’d given Bernard. Potions weren’t my forte, and I’d managed to mess up thirty different tonics. Ruth wouldn’t help. I’d asked her at the beginning of my experimenting, but she’d just smiled at me and continued staring out the window in her bedroom.

The idea was to remake the potion and test it. See if it was as dangerous as everyone thought it was since I couldn’t get my hands on the real thing.

Even Dolores, Beverly, and Iris jumped to my aid. We’d finally gotten the potion to work, but the color was wrong. At the baker’s shop, the color had been a light cream, and this one, no matter how many times we tried—always came out orange.

I shifted over to my left, putting more weight on that butt cheek to try and get some blood flow, and caught Iris staring at me on the next chair.

“What?” I said. “I’ve got numbbutt.”

Ronin laughed. “Numbbutt. I like it. Sounds like nun butts.” The half-vampire sat in the chair to my left. He’d come to show some moral support. Cauldron knew I needed it, and so did Ruth. We all did.

“Maybe we should go for a walk?” Iris shifted slightly to her left, signs that she too was experiencing numbbutt.

I thought about it for a moment. “No. I want to be here when Ruth comes out.” Which was true. No matter the outcome, or my degree of numbbutt, I needed to be here.

“Have you spoken to Marcus?” asked Iris, and I looked up to find Grace staring at us from her desk across the hallway. I glared at her and kept glaring until she looked away. I did not need her to eavesdrop right now.

I sighed. “You mean, have I spoken to the jackass since I threw him out?”

“Yeah.”

“No. And I don’t plan to either.” A flicker of anger rose in me at the memory of what happened five days ago. I had been an idiot to think Marcus would save Ruth. I’d put all my faith in him, and I’d been confident he would.

He was

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