Hex Appeal_A Hexy Witch Mystery by Sarina Dorie

Author:Sarina Dorie [Dorie, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon.com
Published: 2019-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

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Principal Dean stood just inside the doorway, his eyes flickering from Maddy to me. Khaba covered his eyes with his hand as if he couldn’t bear to watch. Probably he wished he could undo what he’d seen. It looked pretty bad. They must have thought I was a drug dealer.

Vega was only a step behind the two men, a memo pad tucked under her arm. She hadn’t caught sight of the bottles Maddy had brought me.

“What did I hear about ‘drugs?’” Principal Dean asked.

Maddy shook her head.

“Maddy was saying it wasn’t like she used drugs. That’s all,” I said. The lie was close enough to the truth that it was easy enough to make up.

“Was that a bottle of blood?” Principal Dean asked.

“No,” I said.

Maddy shook her head vehemently.

I tried to think of something else it could be. The only other red thing I could think of was wine. That wasn’t going to be much better.

“It was juice,” I said.

I ached to use the competency bracelet, but I had a feeling I might need it to defend my honor as a teacher later. Khaba ran a hand over his bald head, looking lost in the shitstorm I’d just created.

Vega shot me a look of disgust. Her heels hammered across the floor, closing the distance between us. She held her hand out to Maddy.

“I’m sorry,” Maddy mouthed to me.

Vega removed the backpack from Maddy’s possession.

Vega peered inside. She held up the jar. “It’s cranberry juice.”

I wasn’t sure if my eyes deceived me, but the red liquid inside was more translucent than the opaque crimson I thought I had seen a moment before.

Chuck Dean stomped across the floor with his metal-encased feet. Maddy shrank back.

He uncorked the jar and sniffed. When that didn’t satisfy him, he took a swig. Maddy made a face.

So did Chuck Dean. “Crikey! It’s unsweetened.” He shoved it at Khaba, who accepted it without comment. The principal dug through her backpack.

From Vega’s sly smile, I suspected the cranberry juice—and the lack of sugar—had been her doing.

Maddy scooted closer to the door. I made a shooing motion with my hands for her to leave.

“My homework for Mr. Thatch’s class is in there,” she whispered. “It’s due tomorrow.”

“Go,” I mouthed. I didn’t want her to get into any more trouble. Homework was the least of her problems.

The principal held up a bottle of shriveled fungus. “Mr. Khaba, test these for us and make sure they aren’t psychedelic mushrooms.” He eyed the bottle that contained devil’s snare and seer’s sage. In addition to magical properties, these herbs also had hallucinogenic side effects.

Maddy snuck out the door.

“Uh huh. Salvia divinorum.” Chuck Dean held up another. He might have been a dunce at wards, but he knew his herbs. “Datura stramonium. Two hallucinogenic plants.” He raised an eyebrow at me. “I hope we didn’t just witness an exchange between a teacher and a student paying for drugs.”

“Those aren’t uncommon plants used in medicinal remedies,” Vega said. “We even use them in my wards classes.

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