Witch in a Crisis (A Blair Wilkes Mystery Book 10) by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

10

`The following morning, the pixie woke me up by dropping glitter onto my head. Thankfully, he hit me and not Nathan. Or Sky, though the cat wasn’t in the room. He usually did his own thing when I stayed at Nathan’s house rather than hanging out with Nathan’s own three cats.

Careful not to wake Nathan, I checked my phone and found a message from Bethan—work’s cancelled today. Mum said we need a break.

Sending a silent thanks to Veronica, I whispered to the pixie, “What is it?”

The pixie fluttered up to the ceiling, shedding more glitter. I got out of bed and shoved my feet into slippers before heading downstairs. The pixie led me outside, where the silent figure of Vincent the vampire stood watching Nathan’s house.

I started at the leader of the town’s vampires. “Um. Hi.”

Of all the people I’d expected to see after yesterday’s escapades, Vincent wasn’t one of them. Mostly because I’d assumed he’d decided to sit this one out. The vampires had an annoying habit of avoiding any conflict which didn’t directly affect them, and their leader most of all.

“Hello, Blair,” he said.

“Is there any reason you were staring up at Nathan’s house while I was asleep?” I asked.

“I asked your friend here to wake you,” he said, indicating the pixie. “I was also having a fascinating chat with your familiar.”

Sky meowed from behind his legs. Oh, right. He and the vampire had been friends before I’d even moved here to Fairy Falls… and come to think of it, there was no way Vincent hadn’t known he was a fairy cat.

“Did you know?” The accusing words came out before my brain had quite caught up with me.

“Know what?”

“You know,” I said, exasperated. “My ancestors. The witches who drove the fairies out of town. You must have been alive back then.”

“Yes, I was, but you can’t expect me to know the ancestors of every witch I come across,” he said.

“Vincent, I’m the only new witch who’s moved here in years,” I pointed out. “My mother was notorious, and you knew Blythe and my family were related.”

“What did you expect me to do?” he said. “The fairies have been gone for hundreds of years.”

“The ones who are left don’t like my family, and for good reason, to be honest,” I admitted. “Except for my dad, but he’s in jail because some other fairies decided to put him there.”

“The fairies are not unlike witches in that they are not a united entity,” said Vincent. “Those who lived in Fairy Falls were not the same as the ones who conspired with the witches in order to drive them out.”

I shot him a sideways look. “You did know. My family—”

“They aren’t your family, Blair,” he said, an impatient undertone to his voice. “Perhaps I speak out of turn, but we vampires choose the company we keep in the same way that you witches choose your covens. I was under the impression that you chose to join the Meadowsweet Coven, which bears no connection with the coven which founded this town.

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