To Spell & Back by ReGina Welling & Erin Lynn

Author:ReGina Welling & Erin Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal fantasy, witch mystery, witch fantasy, humorous fantasy, supernatural mystery
Publisher: Willow Hill Books
Published: 2017-05-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

KIN WANTED TO STAY, but I convinced him to go home. I had a trip to make to the past, and I wanted to get it done without any more drama than we’d already had for one night.

It had taken just under a week for the ring to recharge this time. After each trip to the past, the carvings on the band altered slightly. Tonight, two of the circles had filled in as though marked off a list and another shimmed with an inner fire.

The crossed out spaces reminded me of those exams we took in school where you had to use a number two pencil to fill in an oval for each answer. I hated those tests. Unless you sharpen your pencil every two minutes, there’s no way to stay inside the lines.

“Salem.” I called to him with both voice and mind, “It’s go time.” He’d meet me in the sanctum, which lately he’d taken to calling my laboratory with a distinctly Frankensteinian pronunciation.

“I’m right here,” he announced as the fireplace closed behind me. “I’ve been waiting for you. I’ve completed my mission.” I wanted to ask if his virtue was still intact, but I didn't dare.

“And, did you learn anything?”

“I did. Big news and you’re going to want to sit down for it.” Since I already was, I gave him the circling hand wave to indicate he should continue—well, that and a smirk.

“Serena’s pregnant,” and so was the pause he took after dropping that bombshell on me.

“She’s what now?” It was almost too much to contemplate.

“Knocked up. With child. Preggers. Explains why she’s going to some lengths to get what she wants. There was some dark magic brewing, and she’s dead serious about finding Jett.”

“Wow! That’s all I can...I can’t wrap my head around it.”

“You should also know that I’m done. Do you hear me? I will not be pimped out ever again. Do you know that horrible cat of hers, Morana, wanted to do it in human form? It’s disgusting, Lexi, and you’re lucky I got away before she started trying to undress me. I refuse to go back.”

So many ewws. “Um, I’m sorry?” What was I supposed to say to that? “You’re off the hook if that makes you feel any better, and I’ll buy you a tuna steak,” I added when he continued to frown and glare at me. What more could I say? My head was spinning, and I needed a minute to process his news. Not that I had a minute right then.

Refocus, Lexi. I shook a mental finger at myself.

But that baby is going to be related to you. Myself answered back.

You shut up right now.

“Didn’t you hear me say it’s go time? Let’s get to it; it’ll make you feel better,” and take my mind off other things before I lose it down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. Or worse, Blunderland.

“Okay, he sighed. But let’s call it an even dozen tuna steaks. I’ve got the checklist.” He picked up a notepad from the ottoman in front of him, and then cast a critical eye over my clothes.

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