Witch Oracle in Westerham by Dionne Lister

Author:Dionne Lister
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780994602534
Publisher: Dionne Lister

Chapter 8

After dinner last night—where we all watched Liv push her favourite meal of roast pork with crackling around her plate and eat hardly any of it—I suggested we carry out a test to prove I could tell the difference between people’s magic. Thus, I was in Angelica’s living room, standing at the door to the hall, facing out. My eyes were shut under the blindfold Angelica insisted I wear. Will, Beren, Imani, Angelica, James, and Millicent were in attendance. It would be too much of a luck thing if there had only been two people for me to choose from.

My scalp tingled as someone conjured a small spell. “Angelica.” Yep, definitely bossy and impatient. No one said anything. They weren’t going to tell me until the end how many I got right. The hairs on the back of my neck rose, and a pleasant shiver cascaded down my body. I grinned. “Will.” I’d know his magic anywhere. It had more of an effect on me than anyone else’s. Clean, honest, and strong power skimmed over my scalp. “James.”

We continued for another ten minutes before Angelica finally said, “Okay. We’re done.”

The blindfold disappeared, and I turned. Will was grinning like he was proud. Angelica and James regarded me with poker faces, before James’s broke and he smiled and nodded. Millicent, Beren, and Imani looked at me as if I’d grown a second head, but in an awed kind of way. Will stood and came to me. He wrapped strong arms around me. “You are amazing, but I knew that.”

I grinned up at him. “Thank you. It’s nice to be appreciated.”

“Well, dear, you got them all correct.” Angelica raised her brow.

I dropped my arms from around Will. “Don’t you believe me? Do you think I cheated?” I put my hands on my hips, ready to defend my honour as my cheeks heated.

“Knowing you, I don’t really think you cheated, but…” Her expression softened, and she allowed perplexion to show through.

“But what?”

She shifted her gaze to Will. “You two can talk to each other mind to mind. Maybe there was some of that going on?”

He folded his arms. Angelica was great at offending people because she just didn’t care. She was going to air her thoughts no matter what. I sighed. She didn’t mean it personally—it was just her. “We can, but we haven’t been. In fact”—he turned to me—“we agreed not to unless it was an emergency. We have phones for that, and if anyone finds out what we can do, we’ve lost any advantage we might have in the future.” By anyone, he meant Dana and her group. Will had also explained to me that there was a possibility our mind-to-mind conversations could possibly be listened into, just like a normal phone conversation, and it was a lot of effort to shield them, so we just didn’t bother.

“Right. Well, I want both of you blindfolded for the next bit.” I rolled my eyes. Not again. Why couldn’t they just believe me? “Both of you, turn around.

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