Ice Cold Moon (Wildeward Academy Book 2) by Gwyneira Blythe

Author:Gwyneira Blythe [Blythe, Gwyneira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

We were loaded with packages and I was flying high. Was this what all those girls in London kept trying to get me to come out and do? If so, I’d been missing out. Some of the gifts had been a struggle to find, but Jekyll and Hyde had known one place or another where we could find something. Everyone was accounted for. Well, except for two werewolves. I’d seen a possible shop for their gifts. However purchasing anything without them seeing would be another matter altogether!

The lovely clock tower in the square rang out the hour and then hit a one-note gong. My stomach took the quiet moment to growl out its hunger.

“I think we better feed our date, before she turns ravenous,” Hyde teased. They’d been flirting all morning. I don’t think I’d ever smiled so much in my life.

“Well, there are a few places to eat. The Inn keeps a good menu—“Stuffy.”—There’s Qilin Tea House—“Never filling.”—Then there’s The Tipsy Pearl,” Jekyll ended with a sigh through Hyde’s critiques.

“Now there’s a place to eat!”

“The Tipsy Pearl? A tavern?” My tone was dubious, but I was a little curious. “I’ve never been to a tavern.”

Jekyll glared at Hyde. “This is for our date, not your stomach. She should be wined and dined—” My stomach growled again.

“And she’s hungry, brother. What say you?” Hyde turned to me with excitement bubbling in his eyes. “It’s run by mermaids.”

My mouth dropped open. “How could I say no to a mermaid bar.”

By the time we stowed our packages with the cart and patted Fudge to see how she was doing—she was sleeping and not at all interested in moving—everyone was a little growly with hunger as we crossed the square. The Tipsy Pearl was the one with the crow’s nest and built from shipwreck debris. The owners had lovingly fit the salt-warped boards together like a puzzle. Nets draped from the ceiling and barnacles clung to the walls. A giant fish was memorialized behind the bar framed by bottles upon bottles. The rainbow of its scales shimmered from the light of green sea-glass lamps blazing with mage-light. A stage was backlit by a thick wall of glass containing a wall of water where the swirl of a tail flicked into the wings.

The lunch crowd was easing, but it was still rowdy. We were making our way to the bar when the burly man behind it saw us.

“No! No. Nope.” He pointed a large finger at Jekyll and Hyde. “Ye two know better, Devil’s Duo. The last time ye were in here I had to fix five broken tables and eighteen chairs.”

“Aw, com’on Nero! That was ages ago,” Hyde pleaded.

“Those puppy eyes don’t work on me, ye great overgrown mutt!” Nero crossed his arms and looked huge. His bald head shone in the lights with a gold hoop glinting in one ear.

“I thought you said mermaids, not pirates,” I whispered to Jekyll as he guided me forward with one hand possessively at the small of my back.

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