Glass and Sass: An Amethyst’s Wand Shop Mysteries Prequel by Laura Greenwood & Arizona Tape

Author:Laura Greenwood & Arizona Tape [Greenwood, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

I can smell the beach five minutes before we arrive and despite the company, I relax slightly. The salty air, the cackling seagulls, the wind through my hair are all so familiar that it takes the edge off the tension I'm feeling. There’s nothing like a trip to the beach, though it would be better if the CWC woman wasn’t here, but if I close my eyes, I can ignore her and pretend someone else is driving. It's not like she's being particularly talkative. She's probably worried that my recklessness will rub off on her and she'll start doing things at work that she isn't supposed to.

I don't have the heart to break it to her that she's either got a free spirit, or she doesn't.

Once we're out of the car and heading down onto the beach, I rip my shoes off and throw them in my bag. It's a waste of good beach to be wearing them. “Wooo!” My feet sink into the sand and I wiggle my toes, enjoying the way it feels against my skin. I don't think there's anything that can beat this.

“Miss Gemstone. We’re here on official CWC business,” Toni warns me.

I shrug. “What, and I can’t do that on my bare feet?” I'm not hurting anyone by doing this, and she knows it.

With every step, my feet sink deeper into the hot, soft sand. Ah, what a beautiful day. All I need is a nice cold drink and maybe an umbrella for the shade. I can go and wade through the sea and search for shells and sea glass along the waterline. Some of them are perfect for wands, but others are just pretty.

I reach down to my leg for my wand but come up empty. Right, the suspension. Somehow, despite being here with a CWC agent, I already forgot.

With a sigh, I look back, just in time to watch the CWC woman stumble as her shoe disappears into the fluffy sand. She grumbles and I can tell she wishes she hadn’t worn socks today. Her mistake. I made it clear in my paperwork that my case would involve heading to the beach.

I skip to the darker part of the beach. The wet sand curls underneath my toes and leaves deep imprints as I wade through shallow pools left behind by the tide. We’re not close enough to the sea to find anything interesting yet, but I love how the puddles gradually heat up during the day. It’s the second-best part of the beach.

The first…

I race towards the sea and it greets my ankles with a foamy wave. The freezing cold water splashes up against my skin and just as quick as it came, it retreats. The sludgy sand underneath me gurgles and before it can settle, a second wave rolls over my feet.

“We didn’t come here to play,” Toni shouts from her safe patch of dry sand.

“I’m not playing!” I jump over the next wave and kick the water. “I’m looking.” And letting myself be refreshed by nature.

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