Treasure Witch by Tess Lake

Author:Tess Lake [Lake, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tess Lake

Chapter Thirteen

The competitors gathered for the Gold Mud Run, anticipation high for the prize available at the end.

I tried again.

It’s five days of grueling endurance competition. For one lucky team who can outrun, outclimb and discover hidden clues, there is gold at the end of that muddy rainbow.

I sighed as I looked over the Gold Mud Run competitors milling around and let all of my terrible sentences slip out of my head.

I hadn’t slept well last night and looking at their drawn faces in the morning, neither had Molly and Luce. We could feel the disaster that was coming.

Thankfully, Molly’s curse had worn off, so we’d been able to talk without her complimenting Aunt Cass every five minutes.

We had a serious conversation about simply going interstate and then some very serious conversation about whether it was possible to wipe Carter’s memory at all.

The best excuse we could come up with for a sudden interstate trip was that Molly and Luce wanted to celebrate their few days of high income and they would take me, their lovely cousin, with them.

We quickly abandoned that plan. A sudden move like that would make the moms suspicious, and if we were over on the other coast when they found out what had happened, the repercussions would be severe. We were sure Sheriff Hardy wouldn’t be happy about us leaving either.

As for Carter – we knew how to cast memory charms but there were none that were as precise as we needed. At best we could make him lose the last three weeks entirely.

I’m not saying we’d do that to save ourselves, but we spent a long time debating it.

So this is where we were. I was at work as though there was wasn’t a tsunami of trouble heading in my direction and Molly and Luce had dragged themselves off to Traveler.

We’d talked over the problem of the blurry photo of Holly but none of us could find a way to tell Sheriff Hardy about it that didn’t implicate me in a crime. The best we came up with was mailing it anonymously with a note saying it was found in Franklin’s room. Given my already close involvement in the case, the sheriff would see through that quickly.

There was also the massive problem that someone had tried to kill us! Whoever had emailed me yesterday had then lit a fire at the bottom of the lighthouse, and if there hadn’t been a broom up at the top, we’d probably be dead.

So when I’d much rather be at home hiding under my bedcovers, I found myself instead out on Truer Island in the early morning, waiting for Marika and the mayor to officially open the Gold Mud Run.

There were hundreds of competitors but they were split into two groups. The first group were the hardcore athletes who were going for the big prize – an actual bar of gold (worth about $200,000). They would be running obstacles every day and if they hit their times they’d be given GPS locations to hidden caches of tokens that added to their score.

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