Shadows: a Bayou Magic Novel by Kristen Proby

Author:Kristen Proby [Proby, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633500471
Publisher: Ampersand Publishing, Inc.

Chapter Fourteen

Brielle

“I’m dead on my feet.”

“That’s not funny,” Millie says, frowning at me from behind the counter. We’re at Witches Brew, and she’s filling an order while I read through our grandmother’s book.

Meme didn’t have the best penmanship.

Some of it is hard to read. Either that or it’s in another language, which is entirely possible.

“I want to add the love potion,” Millie’s male customer says, winking at her. “Let’s roll the dice and see if it works.”

“All I ask is that you take it outside before you drink it,” my sister says, laughing. “If I had a dollar for every man who’s fallen in love with me after drinking this, I’d be at least fifty dollars richer.”

“I might fall in love with you without the potion,” Flirty Customer says with another wink.

“Sorry, you’re not my type,” Millie says and flashes a sassy grin as she builds his vanilla chai latte and adds the love potion.

“What, you don’t like devastatingly handsome, rich men?”

“I don’t like married men,” she replies smoothly, stirring his drink.

“How did you—?”

“I don’t call it Witches Brew for nothing.” She winks, and when she moves her hand away from the drink, it continues to stir without her, making the customer swallow hard. “I suggest, if you drink that, you do it while looking at your wife so you fall in love with her since you promised to do so until death do you part.”

She passes him his change, offers him a friendly wave, and once he’s through the door, she blows a loud raspberry through her lips.

“Dudes like that are disgusting,” she says as she leans over the counter toward me. “Have you found anything good?”

“Not yet. Most of it is gibberish to me.”

“That’s because you don’t speak witch.” She frowns when her eyes drop to my neck. “Where’s your pendant?”

“Oh.” I reach for it, but it’s not there. “I must not have put it back on after my shower. I’ll text Cash and ask him to bring it with him when he comes this way for lunch.”

I pull my phone out of my bag and shoot off the message, then frown down at the book.

“What if this doesn’t work, Mill?”

“There isn’t another option,” she says and waves at another customer who just walked through the door. “Go ahead and sit anywhere. I’ll be right over to take your order.”

“I love your café.”

Her grin is wide and proud. “Me, too. How does it feel in here today?”

I let myself look around the space. “No shadows.”

“I smudged last night, and it should hold for a while. Are the girls still around?”

“There are six, but they stay outside. I don’t know why they can’t come in.”

“Let’s be frank here, I’m glad they stay on the sidewalks. It would just be awful if you had to stare at mangled bodies all day.”

“You have a good point.”

“Miss? We’re ready to order.”

Millie hurries over to the couple at the table in the corner, and I stare down at a yellowed page of the book.

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