Storiebook Charm (Spellbound Novel 1) by Melissa Bourbon

Author:Melissa Bourbon [Bourbon, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lake House Press
Published: 2020-03-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Storie waved her hand at the rows of upside-down flowers hanging in the stairwell. One by one they floated down, righting themselves into a five-gallon bucket. That little effort wiped her out. Her magic mojo was fading. Before long, she wouldn’t have any witchcraft left in her.

Outside the door, Reid’s hammer pounded against the bookcase. Damn Harper for letting him back in. But once he was here, Storie had asked him to secure the secret door until she could get someone in to clean out the room. She and Harper could expand the business and hold little girls’ birthday parties there, and it could be a magical haven for Piper and Scarlett. Closing up the hidden passageway in the meantime was the very least Reid Malone could do.

In truth, she planned to take care of cleaning out the garden room. They’d leave it locked up for now, and when everyone had pushed it to the backs of their minds, she’d cast a spell and make it all disappear. If she had any magic left in her.

Her eyelids drooped, her head foggy.

As she gathered the last of the dried flowers, a dark feeling of foreboding draped over her. It filled her lungs, snaking through her veins like oil spreading over water.

She opened the door, setting the bucket of astrids off to the side, looking around the tearoom. Nothing was out of place and everything seemed just as it should.

Harper was in the kitchen, as usual, the girls were off with their dad, and besides Reid, the shop was empty. She tried to shake the feeling that something wasn’t right, but it grew.

She snuck a glance at Reid. Maybe he wasn’t what he seemed to be. Where there were witches, there had to be evil, didn’t there? That was one of the things her father had warned her about. “I discovered that not everything is as it seems when there’s magic involved. It changes people,” he’d said. “I didn’t want it to change you.”

Not for the first time, she wondered again if Reid could know the truth about her powers.

She considered him. He always looked like his mind was working, and now was no exception. He had his hands tucked in the pockets of his jeans, and his broad chest filled out his plain T-shirt, his biceps firm and defined under the sleeves. That tattoo peeked out from under the left sleeve. She wondered what it was, but finding out wasn’t in her plans.

“Woolgathering, darlin’?”

“What?”

“You’re staring at me like…like you want to devour me,” he said.

Bringing on the charm full force. That’s what she got for daydreaming. Before she could answer, darkness swept through the room again, washing over her like a shroud. “Do you feel that?” she asked, looking this way and that.

He cocked an eyebrow. “Feel what?”

How could she explain without sounding like a lunatic? “Like a…a dark cloud’s hovering.”

“It’s the humidity,” he said. “This is Texas.”

The air did feel thick and heavy and filled with moisture, but that wasn’t what she meant.

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