Spell Booked (Retired Witches Mysteries Series Book 1) by Joyce Lavene

Author:Joyce Lavene [Lavene, Joyce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

I seek to find what has been lost.

With wand and light, I seek the way.

I was so busy staring at what was happening to Cassandra that I didn’t realize the seer was gone until the gray fog lifted. “I wish we could have asked her a few more questions.”

“That’s the way it always is.” Elsie picked up another piece of pizza and sighed as she ate it. “So what do we do now?”

“I don’t know.” I couldn’t think of eating pizza, but I had a cup of tea to settle my stomach.

“I can’t believe she did that to me,” Olivia complained. “What did I ever do to her? And why is everyone so prejudiced against ghosts?”

“We were right and there are two people.” Dorothy wiped her hands and mouth with a napkin.

“Out of the mouths of babes.” Elsie shook her head.

“But we’re no closer to knowing who they are,” I said. “Or why the witch wants the thief to steal things for her.”

“Or him.” Elsie cleared her throat.

“Girls, I’m telling you—Brian isn’t the way you’re portraying him at all!” Olivia passionately protested. “He’s a wonderful young man. You don’t understand.”

“Forget her,” Elsie said. “She’s a ghost. What does she know?”

“I’ve had about enough of that kind of talk.” Olivia zoomed down toward Elsie. “You don’t want to make me angry.”

“I’m so scared.” Elsie managed a small spell that pushed Olivia toward the door. She clapped her hands. “It worked!”

“Molly!” Olivia stamped her foot in the air. Obviously, without much significance.

“Let’s concentrate.” I fed some plain pizza crusts to the cats and stroked each of them. “We know there are two people—probably a witch and someone with no magic. They’re working together to collect magic artifacts and maybe killing other witches.”

“Why would anyone do that?” Elsie wondered.

“Maybe as Cassandra said, the witch wants to live forever.”

“That doesn’t make any sense,” Elsie scoffed. “No one lives forever.”

“People get desperate,” I said. “Anything could happen.”

“And they killed Olivia!”

“Do we have to say it quite that way?” Olivia asked.

“It’s no secret that we’re witches—at least not to the witch community,” I continued. “It would be easy for us to be targets.”

“Where does Brian fit in?” Dorothy asked.

Olivia made a growling sound.

“We don’t know yet,” Elsie translated.

“Let’s keep an open mind,” I suggested. “Maybe Olivia is right about him. Let’s try to talk to Colt Manning about what he heard that night. And there has to be someone else who knows Brian Fuller. We need more information about him.”

“Do you want to stir up that hornet’s nest?” Elsie asked. “He could go after Joe.”

“We’ll work around it. He won’t know.” I hoped he wouldn’t know anyway.

“What about Cassandra?” Olivia’s movements spread some of the gray dust that had been Cassandra on the floor. “Shouldn’t you get in touch with the council and let them know what happened?”

“Do we know what happened?” Dorothy shrugged. “Just asking.”

“I think we’ll save that for later,” I said. “I want to get in touch with the council about Cassandra as much as I want to fly across the moon on a broomstick.

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