Witching You Wouldn't Go (The Witchy Women of Coven Grove Book 6) by Constance Barker

Author:Constance Barker [Barker, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barking Mad Books
Published: 2016-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Piper stood outside the hospital the next morning, and dialed Bailey again. This time, though, she picked up.

“Hey, girl,” Bailey said. She sounded exhausted. “Sorry I didn’t pick up last night. We were… busy.”

“How… are things going?” Piper asked. In the back of her mind, a voice was pushing her to say something, to tell Bailey about Ryan, but just the thought of it made her so nervous her stomach lurched.

“Oh,” Bailey said with a sarcastically casual tone, “not bad. I mean, we’re being pursued by mysterious shadow beings who either want to test me or kill me? And, let’s not forget the ancient order of deadly wizards, who call themselves Centurions for scare value I’m guessing, that’s probably looking for us. And did I mention yet that just looking for this… thing is likely to kill me? That’s a thing. Plus, Gideon is probably… well, anyway I don’t think he is who he says he is. Do I sound stressed yet?”

Piper’s mouth worked around her shock. “What do you mean it… might kill you? Bails, what the hell is going on?”

Bailey sighed into the receiver. “I don’t know, Pipes. This whole trip is… more than I thought it would be. We’re about to leave to go to Budapest. And after that we still have to make it to Crete. Crete, Piper.”

“That’s… a lot of travel,” Piper agreed.

“Yeah. So how are things at home?”

Piper imagined Bailey in the middle of some… magical battle, losing her focus and… “Uh, things are fine. No weirdness yet.”

“Huh,” Bailey grunted. “Maybe it’s just me, then.”

“What does that mean?” Piper asked, alarmed. Had Bailey gotten some kind of vision? Did it work like that?

“I mean I leave town for a few days and everything goes quiet,” Bailey chuckled. “I almost wish something was happening back there.”

Piper grimaced, and bit her lip. “Well… just stay alert. Be glad you only have all of Europe to worry about.”

“Uh huh,” Bailey said, “thanks for that.”

“I, ah… have to go,” Piper said. “Just wanted to check in.”

“Thanks,” Bailey muttered. “I have to go, too; Gideon’s about to stuff us all back in his car for another twelve hours.”

“Be careful, Bailey.” Piper glanced back at the hospital doors. “And just… come home as soon as you can. We miss you.”

“Tell everyone I said hi. I miss you all, too.”

They hung up, and Piper frowned at the phone for a long time, struggling to decide if she should call Bailey back and tell her about Ryan.

Instead, though, she put her phone away and turned to go back inside. Up in Ryan’s room, Aria sat by the hospital bed, her eyes closed, her eyebrows pinched in concentration as she held Ryan’s hand with one of hers and some kind of healing icon in her other.

She didn’t open her eyes when Piper came in, and Piper stayed quiet to keep from disturbing whatever work Aria was doing. Presumably she was working to heal Ryan’s heart, but she’d been hesitant to try initially—both because Ryan was in a hospital, and because apparently healing was a complicated sort of magic.

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