Feuding Covens Can Never Make Peace by Anni Jayde

Author:Anni Jayde [Jayde, Anni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seize The Night Publishing Agency
Published: 2019-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Nina came to visit me after my client left. She’d brought a paper bag with goodies and handed it to me when she took a seat. She only ever visited me when she had gossip or when she sensed I was in danger. Luckily, her reason for being here was to spread a rumor this time. “I heard there was a terrible fight that woke up the entire street outside Mrs. Nadeau’s house a couple of nights ago,” she said.

Faye Nadeau was a client of mine. She’d asked me to search for her missing cat. Pumpkin was as orange as the vegetable she’d been named after and she was the female equivalent to Satan. I was pretty sure that if they mated, their offspring would be evil to the core and would try to kill me on sight from pure instinct. Fortunately, that would never happen because Satan and Pumpkin didn’t live anywhere near each other.

“Did Wyatt arrest the people who were fighting?” I asked.

“Oh, no,” Nina said with a laugh as I bit into my donut. She almost put her hand over her mouth to muffle her giggle, then remembered it was covered in ingredients. “The fight was between two male cats. Pumpkin is in heat and they were fighting over her.”

My blood tried to run cold, but I shook off the presentiment of doom. “Who did the male cats belong to?” I asked as casually as possible.

“One belonged to Mrs. Nadeau’s neighbor. The other one was a stray, or so she thinks.”

“What did the stray look like?” I asked. Dread was now creeping up my spine.

“He was black and didn’t have a collar. He won the fight and did the deed with Pumpkin right there on the sidewalk.” She broke into giggles, but my humor had fled along with my appetite.

“Uh oh,” Jess said when the color drained out of my face. “Satan has mated with Pumpkin. You need to warn humanity that the apocalypse has begun.” For once, she wasn’t joking in the slightest.

“What’s the matter, dear?” the baker asked me when I put my unfinished donut down. “Are you feeling unwell?”

“It was Satan,” I said in horror. “Satan was the stray, I just know it.”

Now it was Nina’s turn to go pale. “Why do you think it was him?”

“Did you hear that he snuck into my car and attacked me on my way to work a couple of days ago?” She nodded and the color stole back into her cheeks when she tried not to laugh at me. “He jumped out of my car and I thought he was going to go home, but he headed in the wrong direction,” I told her.

“Pumpkin is a horrible animal,” she confided to me. “She attacks everyone who comes to visit Faye.”

“Satan does the same thing,” I told her. “They both hate me more than they hate anyone else. I can only imagine how horrible their kittens will be if Pumpkin falls pregnant.”

We fell silent at the prospect of how malicious their offspring could be.

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