Cursed Candy Mysteries Complete Series by Cate Lawley

Cursed Candy Mysteries Complete Series by Cate Lawley

Author:Cate Lawley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cate Lawley


10

Sabrina and I arrived at Delilah’s and, after finding Miles and Great-Aunt Sophia in Bastian’s room, explained to them that we’d left Charlene in the park sometime after sunset.

Amidst the flurry of our arrival, I noticed that Bastian’s IV stand was gone and the cannula removed from his arm, but I didn’t allow myself to drift to his side, strong as the pull was. I needed my wits about me while Miles delivered what news he had.

“Officially,” Miles said, “it was a car wreck. But there was a witch on scene, an EMT, who reported the puncture wounds to us.”

A car wreck. Charlene hadn’t even made it home.

“He could have been waiting in her car at the park,” Great-Aunt Sophia offered when Sabrina and I just stared at Miles in confusion.

She cast a worried glance in our direction.

Worried, because Sabrina and I had a near miss. And that was the first time I realized that it could have been one of us who’d ended up dead. Maybe if we hadn’t stuck so close to each other throughout the visit. Or if we’d driven separately. Or if—

“He was right there,” Sabrina said, interrupting what would have surely been an ugly spiral of what-ifs. “We could have had him.”

And therein lay the different between Sabrina and me. I landed on the danger to us, and Sabrina mourned the lost opportunity to end the killings. There was a reason she was an ICWP deputy and I was the ancillary minion, only employed on the cases involving my coopted magic. I was not cut out for this work.

But I was here, and I was making the effort. I was righting my wrongs, as best I was able.

“Where are Delilah and Milo?” Sabrina asked. “We didn’t see them on the way in.”

More like the mad dash through the front door and up the stairs.

Miles muttered something about gathering supplies. A good reminder that Delilah had proven to be so much more than her first impression.

Which made me question the intuition Bastian placed so much faith in. My gaze flickered to his face. His color had improved. I resisted the impulse to approach his bed, hold his hand.

Bastian was a smart guy and good at his job. If he had faith in my intuition, then I should. And when I thought back to my first meeting with Delilah, it had actually been me who’d given her more credit. Bastian thought her marriage one of convenience, and I’d been the one to see the very real grief she’d tried so hard to suppress.

What had my first impression of Charlene been? Mildly unpleasant, yes, but not so terrible as to end up on someone’s murder list.

I was so confused, had so many questions. To begin with, Charlene was a witch; the first two deaths had been of nonmagical people.

“Marcus Landon wasn’t a witch. He wasn’t magical at all. Unless you got that wrong, Miles?” I winced as I asked. Miles wasn’t the type to get things wrong.

Without giving



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