Wicked Garden: A Supernatural Romance Novella by Bryn Donovan

Author:Bryn Donovan [Donovan, Bryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Almeris Press
Published: 2019-08-18T18:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Aaron told Nicole that a store called Mystic Light might be a good bet. In the truck, he explained that he’d never set foot in the place himself, but his sister had frequented it in college when she was into Tarot card reading. He wasn’t sure it would even still be there, but they arrived to find it open, with multicolored ribbons fluttering in the breeze outside the door.

In the front of the shop, huge displays of crystals glittered. Nicole ran her fingers over a sphere of clear quartz. “Oooh.” She looked back at Aaron. “Aren’t they pretty?”

Drawing nearer to Nicole, he pointed at one of the little signs in the display. “And they have magical powers.” The man behind the counter shot him a dirty look.

“We’re here to get supplies to talk to the dead,” Nicole reminded him. “We can’t exactly judge.”

“Good point,” he admitted. The man behind the counter went back to his task of portioning out a dried herb into small plastic bags.

Nicole picked up a hefty geode full of pale blue crystals, like a miniature enchanted cave. “Blue calcite,” she read off the sign. “It’s so sparkly.”

“Like your eyes,” Aaron said.

The compliment and the warmth in his low voice sent a thrill through her. “Thank you,” she breathed.

What if her resolve to be alone was timed exactly wrong, just as she met someone very right? Flustered, she returned the rock to the glass shelf. “We should, um.” What had they come here for again?

Aaron asked the man at the counter, “Do y’all have black candles?”

“In the back.” He gestured with his thumb. Aaron and Nicole passed resin and brass statuettes of Buddhas, warrior women, and elephant-headed gods to gather up their provisions.

As they approached the cash register, Nicole said to Aaron, “I’ll pay for it.”

“Nah, I got it. You can get lunch.”

“Okay.” Wait—they hadn’t discussed going to lunch. She wanted to go with him, though, and not only because she was hungry. Wherever they went, the meal would likely cost more than the candles and the packet of herbs, but that was all right.

Aaron made a detour to grab something at the front of the store. He set the blue crystal geode down on the counter next to the other items.

“Hey, what are you doing?” she demanded. “You can’t get that for me.”

“Who says I’m getting it for you?”

“Oh. Okay.”

The man behind the counter rang it up. Aaron gave Nicole a look of amused disbelief and then signed the sales slip. “Of course it’s for you.”

Delight warred with reluctance inside her. “You shouldn’t—”

“Come on, it’s nothing.” He took her hand and set the geode in it.

As they walked out of the shop into the fall sunshine, Nicole’s spirits sparkled as brightly as the unexpected gift in her hand. Maybe her life in Savannah had gotten off to a rough start, but new beginnings were often that way.

They at least had a plan to deal with the ghost, and for all she knew, it would work. That would give her an amazing story to tell forever.

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