Witch, Please! by Abby Knox

Author:Abby Knox [Knox, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-08T06:00:00+00:00

After the next morning’s rush of coffee addicts, Morgan and her just-showing belly came in for a half-decaf and a moment of Alice’s time.

“We need to talk.” She looked deadly serious and was holding a large, old manuscript under her arm that probably should not have been brought out of its safe place in the museum’s library.

Alice asked her barista, Jordan, to take over for a minute.

Morgan spent the next several minutes telling Alice what she found out in her research. It was strange, bizarre, unbelievable. And it was not good news. It was pretty devastating, actually.

“So,” Morgan said, gingerly patting an open page of the manuscript that included an illustration of a female figure, a man, and a small, shriveled-looking bloodsucking creature. “To summarize: you lived a former life, also went by the name of Alice, in the 1300s. For clarity, we’ll call her Alice the First. She was—you were—not exactly a good witch. To use a schoolyard phrase, you started it.”

“So it was me? In a former life, I turned him into a vampire and he’s just been roaming the earth ever since?”

“Not just him. You made them,” Morgan said.

Alice was confused. “I thought people only became vampires by being turned by another existing vampire?”

Morgan shook her head. She looked drawn and haunted. “No, sweetie. I am saying there were no vampires before Alice the First. You created them. You cursed them to live diminished in the sunlight, and doubly cursed them to survive only on blood. According to this legend, you believed this curse would only mean the vampires would be relegated to offal, scraps and unable to be in the sunlight. Well, the vampires sought out any black magic they could find and eventually sold their souls to a demon in exchange for immortality and superhuman strength. Which meant they could feed on humans and live forever. This was Drew’s wish, to torment Alice and her kind for the rest of her days.”

Alice shook her head. “This is crazy.”

Morgan shrugged. “It’s no huge coincidence that he would be drawn here to Birchdale after all these centuries. You’re the key to letting him die, finally.”

“But his soul is still somewhere?”

“That was the meanest trick of all. The irony is that there is no hell other than earth for a soul to suffer in. Hell is simply living on and not dying.”

“So the demon did this just for what, sport?”

“It’s what they do.

“And in that former life, you definitely were somewhat involved in the curse or whatever happens that made him into a vampire. And now, you're back in his life to undo it.

“It means you’d better go back and figure out what you did in your former life to make the curse and what the conditions of the curse are. Because if you take away his immortality, he’s either going to die immediately or he is just going to be erased like he was never here in the first place.”

“So if we keep having sex and all

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