Magic and Mayhem: Witchin Impossible 2: Rogue Coven (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Witchin' Impossible Mysteries) by Renee George

Author:Renee George [George, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-10-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

AT MY INSISTENCE, Lily came over for dinner. I hated thinking of her alone in that house. I’d tried to talk her into moving in with us. We had three bedrooms and lots of space, but she liked her independence.

Ford had cooked, another reason I loved him, and the pot roast smelled delicious. A Shifter buddy of his, Troy Dancy, was an electrician, and he’d come over while we were putting out fires all over town and fixed the short in the wire. It turned out the electrical problem had nothing to do with my coffee. Still. The hole in the center island and floor reminded us all that if the earth’s rotation was thrown off because of an imbalance in the core, it was probably my fault. At least nothing was coming up through the hole. Yet.

At the table, Tizzy said, “Show them, Lily.”

“It was probably just a fluke.” She brushed her unruly auburn hair back from her face and took a bit of roast. “Wow, Ford. This is excellent.”

Tizzy climbed up on the table.

“No feet on the table during meals,” Ford muttered. He didn’t bother making it a command because Tizzy wouldn’t obey anyhow.

“Do it, Lily. Do it, do it, doo eeeet!”

Tizzy’s insistence and Lily’s reluctance made me curious. “What is she talking about, Lils?”

Exasperated, Lily put her knife and fork down. “Some strangeness happened this afternoon when Tizzy and I went to the store.”

“I asked the grocer if her eggs were fresh, and she said she put them in new cartons because they were twelve days past the expiration date.”

“Okay. Weird, but I’m not sure what’s exciting about it.”

“She hadn’t meant to tell me, Haze. But it was like she couldn’t help herself.” Lily rubbed her face, looking more tired than I’d seen her in a long time. “My neighbor John Decker, I asked him about his wife. Instead of giving me the standard, ‘She’s doing okay. Getting there,’ which has been his answer almost every day since their son Boyd died, he said, ‘Terrible. Most days she’s in bed. I worry one day I’ll come home and find she’s taken her own life.’” Lily stuttered out a heavy exhale.

“Yeah,” Tizzy said. “And we tested it with other people. All the Shifters we asked questions answered us with whole truths. Even embarrassing questions.”

Lily blushed. “I had to know. I had to ask things they wouldn’t usually answer.”

“What about witches?”

“It worked to some degree with witches and warlocks, unless the questions were too outrageous,” Lily said. “They didn’t lie about them, but they were able to not answer truthfully.”

Ford scoffed. “I find it hard to believe.”

I felt an evil smile tug the corner of my lips. “Fine. Ask Ford why he’s afraid of clowns.”

“I’m not afraid of—”

“Why are you scared of clowns?” Lily asked him.

Ford immediately started talking. “When I was five years old, my father took me to the circus, and I snuck away to check out the clowns. They trapped me in their tiny car and tormented me for what felt like hours until my dad finally rescued me from the jesters of Satan.

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