Cold as a Witch's Toffee by Sara Bourgeois

Author:Sara Bourgeois [Bourgeois, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

After some more practice casting a circle, Voodoo, Rowan, and I had some dinner. Rowan went home after dinner, and all I wanted to do was fall into bed. We’d had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, and I stuffed myself with three plates plus garlic bread. I was just starving after using magic, and I couldn’t believe how much I’d eaten.

Stuffed with delicious carbs and happy as a fat cat in the sun, I went upstairs to check out the bedrooms. There were four bedrooms in the house with two on each side of the hallway. The master and the smallest bedroom were to the left, and to the right were the two middle-sized rooms and a bathroom.

The first bedroom on the right had been my room when I stayed with Uncle Leo. I went in there first and found my old twin bed right where it had been before. The quilt, made by my grandmother, was still the bedspread. The scene took me back.

I could remember lying on that bed reading novels late into the night.

But they weren’t novels, were they?

My memory had replaced the books with novels, but they had actually been spell books and old family grimoires. I looked to the old oak bookcase next to the window, and sure enough, it was lined with black, purple, and ruby red leather-bound books.

Every summer I’d spend hours a day poring over those tomes in the hopes that while I was in Knox Hills, my magic could catch up with Rowan’s. He got to study magic year round, but I could only be a witch, and be myself, when I visited my uncle.

It was easy to switch back and forth between the two lives when I was young kid. I could keep Leo, and Knox Hills’, magical secret. It was when I got older and became a teenager that I started to resent having to stop using magic when I went back to live with my mother.

Instead of holding out for eighteen or even asking my mother to live with Uncle Leo, I began to resent him and the magic. It was a typical teenage move, I guessed.

I wished I could take it back and have made a different decision. That wasn’t possible though. All I could do was stick to my vow to make the most of what I’d been given.

When I crossed the hall into the master bedroom, I expected to find it as I’d last seen it. At some point, Leo had the room completely remodeled.

The furniture was all new, and the mattress and foundation on the bed were still wrapped in plastic. There was a note in the middle of the bed. I picked it up and read it.

You’re welcome to your old room if you’d like, but this is my gift to you, Allegra. Someone as magical as you needs a good night’s sleep.

There was a new door in the wall that separated the master bedroom from the small bedroom. I walked through and discovered that the smallest bedroom was a bedroom no more.

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