The Cursed Crow and the Deadly Hex by Kelly Ethan

Author:Kelly Ethan [Ethan, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kelly Bowerman
Published: 2020-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

“Don’t let that baker cousin of yours catch you munching in here. She might get your grandmother to hex me.” Delilah winked as she placed a pot of tea in front of Xandie.

Swallowing her mouthful of fluffy berry pancake, Xandie waved a fork at Delilah. “Elspeth’s bark is worse than her bite.”

“I doubt that, honey.” Delilah cleared off a booth next to Xandie’s table.

“I won’t tell if you won’t.” Xandie smiled widely and then forked in another mouthful.

“Tell me you haven’t rejected your favorite cousin’s baking?” Lila dropped next to Xandie.

“Hey, I thought I was your favorite cousin?” Holly sat opposite Lila and Xandie.

“You have that Eau De Mortuary perfume going on now. Xandie’s musty Library smell is so much better.”

“Nothing is sacred in this town, is it?” Xandie fought off the pancake attack from Lila with her fork.

“Nope.” Lila successfully stole a generous mouthful of fluffy deliciousness. “Hey, this is good.” She waved to Delilah and ordered two more plates of pancakes for her and Holly.

“Did you hunt me down at the diner because we have another Elspeth incident or a dead body?”

Holly shook her head. “Nope to both of those things, and I haven’t had another vision either.”

“We just wanted to see if you had anything new from the Library?”

“Actually, Lila, the Library’s given me an information pending message. Jackson letting me look at those two files helped the Library get me access. It’s just a matter of waiting and hoping no one dies in the meantime?”

“Where are the files then?” Lila snuck another pancake morsel and chewed her mouthful victoriously.

Xandie scowled at Lila and hunched protectively over her plate. “I left them in the kitchen at home. Theo is supposedly guarding them. I think he’s trying to gather dirt on Elspeth.”

Delilah cleared her throat and deposited pancakes and syrup in front of Lila and Holly. “Here you go, Harrows. Did I hear you mention bodies? Surely we don’t have any more.” Delilah shuddered. “I thought I left all that behind when I moved Point Muse.”

Holly nodded sagely. “Pretty much everyone assumes that when they move here. In reality, our accidental death statistics are higher than the city of Portland.”

Delilah shuddered and then wandered back off to the kitchen, muttering under her breath.

“So speaks Death Girl.” Lila intoned with a serious look on her face before collapsing into her seat with the giggles.

“Mom told you not to call me that,” Holly growled at Lila and lifted her fork in a stabbing motion.

Xandie put her hands up in a time out. “Can we focus on dead bodies and killers, please?”

“What’s there to focus on? Someone’s killing Morrigan Coven members for their fragments of the super scary Morpheus Amulet. And Elspeth is in the thick of it. At least this time, we’re fairly sure she isn’t the perpetrator.”

“This time?” Xandie choked on her last mouthful of pancake. “There’s been other times where Elspeth’s been accused of murder?” A bit much even from a mayhem-inclined Harrow witch.

Lila waved Xandie’s question away. “Occasionally Braun or the Feds come calling about someone they’ve dug up or has gone missing.

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