His Wings by Aya DeAniege

Author:Aya DeAniege [DeAniege, Aya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

I left the estate just after noon. It was a little after Sera arrived, I knew, but I had also planned it like that. She would be safer on the estate while I investigated the tattoo parlour. Magic and demons both had difficulty getting into the estate, and Michael would get Sera to safety if something happened.

That was why I had waited until she had arrived, and I was sure that she and Michael were wrapped up with one another. That way, there was less of a chance of her leaving or running off.

It had nothing to do with hoping she would ask for me when she arrived or hoping that we’d run into one another on my way out. Nothing like that at all.

Maybe if I keep repeating that, it’ll come true.

I drove downtown, went to the cafe, and then went around the corner to where she had said the parlour was. I parked across the street from where the shop was supposed to be and turned off my car. Finding the Wiccan shop was simple.

It may have been three years since I had gone looking for that shop, but it seemed just the same. Just as clean as the day it had opened, the signs in its windows untouched from the fading that the sun could cause.

Witches liked to use magic to upkeep their shops, but it gave them a certain quality. Like the air around them had been scrubbed clean of everything dirty.

There it was, still as evident as ever.

Sitting across from the shop, I stared into it, wondering if they knew what happened downstairs. Humans didn’t always lease a whole building for their shops. Sometimes it was just the top or the bottom that was rented out. Just because the witches upstairs were registered, didn’t mean that the witches downstairs were, or even that the witches upstairs knew that the downstairs was rented to witches.

That was the thing with witches. They were like a massive extended family. If they grew up together or were introduced one another, they would recognize they were both witches. Otherwise, it took witnessing the other witch using their magic or noticing the side effects of spells.

By setting up under a Wiccan shop, the ones in the basement may have used the top shop’s runoff of magic to cover whatever they did.

Playing with my keys, I watched the building upstairs.

Can’t just…

“Yeah, I know,” I said to no one in particular.

I slipped out of the car and headed across the street, dodging a car as I went. In the wiccan shop, I stepped up the counter and looked at the woman behind it, who stared at me with wide eyes.

“Are you a dark witch?” I asked.

I already knew the answer, because I had seen her before the witch council. I knew it was possible to fake the tests the witch council put everyone through, but it was very complicated.

And, let’s face it, I had spied on her on more than one occasion.

“No,” she said, giving her head a little shake.

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