Witch in Charm's Way by R K Dreaming

Author:R K Dreaming [Dreaming, R K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

14. Club Nocturne

Allegra etherhopped me home to Mansion House. We arrived near the front door of the castle to find Jasper sitting on the steps waiting for me.

“What are you doing here?” said Allegra in surprise.

“Oh, hey Allegra,” he said. “Waiting for Esme.”

She looked at the two of us curiously. An odd half smile came onto her face.

“So what are you two up to?” she asked us both lightly.

I hadn’t told her about my plan to go with Jasper to Club Nocturne. I suppose I thought she might be annoyed with me. After all, she was the one who had wanted to question Beachbum and I had told her that we should stay out of it and leave it to the professionals. And now I had changed my mind.

I never could keep secrets from Allegra so I ended up spilling the beans right there on the doorstep.

She was rightfully annoyed.

“I can’t believe you didn’t tell me!” she said accusingly.

“Do you want to come?” said Jasper.

Allegra scowled. “I wouldn’t want to be a third wheel on your date.”

“It’s not a date,” I said immediately.

“If you say so,” retorted Jasper.

Allegra looked a bit annoyed.

“Just come with us,” I said, wanting to appease her. “And anyway, we might need you?”

I looked at her pleadingly.

Allegra’s wand might come in handy if we ended up upsetting anyone by asking dodgy questions. But then again, Jasper also had his own gift to bring to a confrontation. Or a curse, depending on how you looked at it. In addition to Allure, baena had a second magical ability called their Hunger. They needed to feed on the life energy of other beings to survive. Just a little bit would do. But they could do serious damage with it if they wanted to. Even kill.

But Hunger needed skin to skin contact. A wand beat it out at a distance and in many other ways.

Allegra rolled her eyes. “Of course you’re going to need me,” she said. “It’s a good job you’ve brought along a few of my spare outfits. I can’t go dressed like this.”

She gestured down to her elegant lilac robes. These were the sorts of things she wore to keep granny happy, but only when Allegra felt like it. Allegra didn’t mind shaking things up every once in a while. I knew that wearing these robes tonight had been a favour to me. She’d wanted everything to go smoothly on my first evening at home.

“Excellent!” said Jasper, looking really pleased.

I rolled my eyes at him. It looked like he wasn’t too bothered about this being a date after all.

While Jasper hung out with Aunt Adele, who was experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen, Allegra and I went up to my bedroom to change outfits.

As we walked up the stairs of South Tower, she said, “I wonder how granny knew about the last time you were… er, there when someone died.”

“You mean the last time I was accused of murder?” I said. “You don’t have to be afraid of saying it, Ali.

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