Bottling It (A Wayfair Witches' Cozy Mystery #1) by A.A. Albright

Author:A.A. Albright [Albright, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Will had made a casserole, and it wasn’t entirely ruined. Parts of it were even quite nice – you just had to dig a bit to find them.

‘What would you like to drink?’ he asked. ‘I’ve got everything, but I did get a very nice bottle of champagne especially for tonight.’

‘That’d be nice. But I don’t want to have a hangover, so maybe I’d better have a soft drink, too. Um, do you have any Berry Good Go Juice?’

I know, I know, my mother had sworn us against drinking it. But I’d been with Will for a couple of hours now, and the only thing I’d learned was his deepest, darkest secret. Fine, it was pretty big. But it wasn’t what I needed to know. Having the juice in front of us might give me an excuse to ask some questions.

He poured me a glass of champagne and one of juice. I took a sip of the bubbly first, then pretended to drink some of the juice. The flower pot behind me would be getting a thorough watering tonight.

‘This stuff is so good,’ I said. ‘Hey, did you have any luck finding out who stole the recipe?’

He groaned. ‘Not as yet. My aunt says she has an idea who it might be, but it’s not exactly the sort of evidence she can bring to the gardaí. We didn’t actually even ring them ourselves in the first place. One of the human security guards did. Alice is wondering whether she should tell the Wyrd Court about the robbery, or whether it’ll cause more trouble than it’s worth. I mean, what’s Mildred going to do? Start up a competing company? That’d be kind of obvious, even for her.’

‘Mildred?’

‘You know, that vampire politician. Oh yeah, maybe you don’t know. Lucky you. I wish I could forget everything I knew about supernatural politics, I tell you that much. Aunt Alice said the place stunk of Mildred’s blood after the theft, so …’ He began to clear away the dinner dishes, and brought out warm chocolate cake and ice cream. ‘Sorry, the cake isn’t homemade. It’s from Caulfield’s Cakes in Riddler’s Cove.’

I took a bite. ‘Oh my stars!’ I tried to maintain my manners, and to chew slowly, but I hadn’t had anything from Caulfield’s in years. Between the broom, the cake, and my renewed relationship with my coven, I was suddenly feeling very fond of the witching world. ‘So … is the factory owned by your aunt, then?’

‘Yes and no. My aunt owns it legally. It’s in a human enclave, so it has to be done that way. But the whole coven are very much involved.’

I took another pretend sip of my juice and followed it with some more champagne. ‘Do you guys have a lot of businesses in the human world, then?’

‘No, actually. This is one of very few, but Alice wants us to open some more. Berry Good Go Juice is Alice’s brainchild. Her recipe. Frankly, we were all surprised that she managed to come up with a drink that tastes so good.

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