Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare

Author:Jessica Clare [Clare, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

I clutch the phone to my chest, frowning. Penny has said that about Ben many times. She’s a sweetheart, but her Golden Girl is absolutely Rose. She believes everything anyone tells her, and she’s trusting and sweet and guileless to a fault. So Penny is great, but she’s not much help when it comes to most gossip. And because she works at the components store, she hears a lot of gossip . . . none of it good, and a lot of it about Ben Magnus.

Penny has told me in the past that she’s heard all kinds of ugly rumors about him, but she hasn’t been able to find anything concrete. He’s very private, and so that doesn’t help matters, she says. A lot of it is speculation, and it’s fueled by his appearance. Whereas other warlocks do their best to blend in with modern society, Ben wears his wavy black hair deliberately longer than is fashionable, so long that it brushes against his collar. He wears black at all times, and along with his pale skin and huge frame, he looks menacing and unrelenting.

And maybe he is, but he’s also wonderfully protective and smart. He has a great sense of humor.

And maybe I like his long, floppy hair.

I stare down at my phone’s screen, feeling a bit like I’m betraying Ben just for entertaining the idea. I mean, Ben is around all of Dru’s familiars. He’d know if they were cursed or not. He’s commented before on how difficult it is for Dru and himself to keep familiars, so I can’t imagine him cursing them.

Unless I’ve been in a house full of evil witches all this time and been completely unaware of it. But if that was the case, why would they be teaching me magic? Why would all of Dru’s potions be to help friends? Heck, we spent hours the other day making a healing concoction for a squirrel that the neighbor kid ran over with his bike and left in the street. Last I saw, that squirrel was completely better thanks to the potion (which gave me a migraine that day) and was living in the tree in the front yard.

If I’m surrounded by evil, it doesn’t feel like it.

I text Penny back, worried.

REGGIE: I don’t think it’s Ben? He’s complained a few times that Dru can’t hold onto a familiar.

PENNY: Of course she can’t if he’s cursing them all!!

PENNY: I don’t know him, so I trust you, but he seems like the most natural suspect.

PENNY: But I will put on my detective hat and ask around!

REGGIE: Thank you. Do you know what I can do?

PENNY: Where is Dru? Did she leave you?

REGGIE: She went to bingo.

PENNY: Oh. Well, I mean, if she’s not worried, then I wouldn’t be worried either.

PENNY: You still want to get together for coffee in the AM?

REGGIE: Yes? I think so? I’ll text you if it changes.

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