Witch's Brew by Aspen Cole

Author:Aspen Cole [Cole, Aspen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

The reckoning came at dinner. It was crowded. Ligeia, Maeve, Eve and I all crowded at one end of a table which we shared with some second years. I heard the shouting first. It was definitely Aria. She normally tried to put on the sweetest face, but when she was mad you could hear it. She was screaming at Luke about something. I couldn't hear and he seemed to be screaming at her too. Then Aria stormed off.

"Did you hear what that was about?" I asked Ligeia.

"It sounds like they broke up." She replied.

"Maybe I should go find out," Maeve said. I normally wouldn't want to get mixed up in anything, but I was dying of curiosity. She went to the other shifters and whispered something to them. When she came back, Ligeia and I were waiting in anticipation.

"Well?" Ligeia said, sounding very interested.

Maeve's expression was wide and shocked. "They told me that Luke accused Aria of setting you up in the woods that day. He told her that it wasn't cool and then broke up with her. That was when she stormed off."

"I knew it." I almost shouted. "She was the one that set me up."

"I'm not finished yet," Maeve said. "Luke told her that he'd rather be with someone like you, Esther, than someone as coldhearted as Aria. He said he had more respect for you than he'd ever had for her."

Ligeia's mouth dropped and Maeve wiggled her eyebrows at me. Wow. That had to be a new one for me.

I groaned, "Ugh. This is going to make things between Aria and me so much worse."

"But what about Luke?" Ligeia pressed. I thought about Luke. He was a blonde-haired blue-eyed puppy dog. He seemed sweet enough, but I didn't like him in that way.

"I don't know, I don't think he's my type," I said.

"Oh is that right?" Ligeia said, "And just who is your type?"

I blushed hard. She was on to me, I knew it. "Nobody," I mumbled.

"Mmmhmm, it certainly isn't dark-haired bad boys rumored to be bound to demons is it?" She accused.

"Well, about that," I argued. "He's never been anything but pleasant to me." That was a half-truth. At least he hadn’t been specifically unpleasant to me.

"So you admit it then, he is your type?" She said, still not letting me off easy.

"Look," I said, "I have a theory about him. Let's talk about it back at the house." They agreed and we finished our meal and went back to Halewick House. We lit a fire and I began to explain everything I learned so far. Whatever he was, I was beginning to suspect that it was connected to the man I had seen in the forest. I had seen him again, just a flash of him, inside the Hallow this afternoon. All the pieces were fitting together. If I could only learn a little bit more about him.

Days and Nights passed and I didn't learn anything more about Kairn or the mystery at hand. However, at lunch one day, the Headmaster himself came to personally ask if I would meet with him.

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