Equinox Enthralled: a Witchy Romantic Suspense (Cursed Descendants Book 5) by A.S. Green

Author:A.S. Green [Green, A.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Collinwood Publishing, LLC
Published: 2024-05-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Seventeen

It was late in the evening when everyone took their seats on the wolves’ threadbare couches, just as they had that morning.

God, Stella thought. Had it really been only that morning?

Dylan dragged a low table between the couches, and Antoinette set her grimoire on top of it. She flipped the pages open to a spell marked with a yellow Post-it.

There were a few scribbled notations on the sticky note, and Stella leaned in to see if she could read them.

“More Old French?” she asked, glancing up at Antoinette.

“Haitian,” Antoinette replied. “Madam Chery, the divinò on Beacon Street, helped me with the translation.”

“What’s a divinò?” Abby asked.

“A prophetic witch,” Catherine said, tucking her gray-blond hair behind her ear. “Like me.”

“Are you saying you’ve found another member of your coven?” Stella asked Antoinette, because if this divinò was living in Boston, maybe that meant Antoinette wouldn’t have to be alone anymore.

“No,” Antoinette said, and Stella heard a crack in the normally unflappable witch’s voice. “Madam is a solo act.”

“Ah,” Stella said quickly, hoping to save her from any embarrassment. She doubted Antoinette would want strangers noticing chinks in her armor. “And what does this spell say?”

“Well…” Antoinette lifted her chin. “We’d first need to know when and from where each of your new friends was taken.”

“That’s easy,” Abby said. “Jun got grabbed in 1995 Baltimore. Alastair is from 1964 Glasgow, Scotland. Frannie is from Boston. I think she said 1915. Mary is from the Jamestown Colony, but she doesn’t know the exact year. She hit her head when she landed in the pit, and it’s messed with her memory.”

“Can we get close to the right year?” Ethan asked.

“Well, she did recall Goody Joan Wright and her trial,” Abby said, sounding hopeful.

“Joan’s trial was in 1626,” Roman said. “So, it would’ve been after that.”

“Okay,” Antoinette said, “that’s a start. But now comes the hard part.”

“Great,” Dylan murmured.

“For our coven’s spell to work,” Antoinette explained, “we also need to focus on the where. Cities are too broad. We need objects from the actual places where they were taken.”

“Too bad we left all of their original clothes behind in 1692,” Stella said. “That would’ve been perfect.”

“Mary’s still wearing her original clothes,” Abby said.

Ethan blew out a frustrated breath. “But the rest of them aren’t.”

Antoinette shook her head. “Clothes won’t work. They’re not…”

She leaned over the grimoire and dragged her finger down through the spell, stopping in the middle.

“Here,” she said. “This word wòch. It means rock, but with the rest of the context clues, Madam said it really referred to an anchor, an anchor to the earth. You see?”

Everyone glanced at each other. Stella wasn’t so sure that anyone was totally following, including herself.

“What about the Zip drive?” Stella asked.

“The what?” Antoinette asked.

“We found it in the pit,” Stella said. “It’s at the store now. Marietta said it’s from the mid-1990s, so it could be Jun’s. Could that anchor him back to his home?”

Antoinette sighed in frustration. “It’s too mobile. We need something that is anchored to the physical spots where each of them were when they were taken.

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