Come Rain or Scry (The Witches Murder Club Book 7) by Samantha Silver

Author:Samantha Silver [Silver, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

I let the magic build again and closed my eyes. I pictured myself sensing the auras belonging to every living thing in here. When I opened my eyes, I looked around. There was a fly, with a blue aura, buzzing in the corner. The daddy longlegs that had made his home in the ceiling at the far end of the room glowed red. But that was it. There was no one else.

Whoever had been here was gone.

I let out a breath as I killed the two spells I’d cast and reappeared once more. At least there was no imminent danger. But it didn’t mean I was safe.

Who had been here? And why?

I crept toward the computer as if the intruder were hiding inside of it and ready to pounce, even though I knew that made no sense. Scanning the desk, I tried to remember what had been here. What was missing? Was anything missing? What was open on the screen? What was the intruder looking for?

This was the Golden Hope Ogopogo. We weren’t exactly running a massive investigative journalism department here. There was no Deep Throat giving us insight into some sort of government conspiracy or anything like that.

One of the articles last week that had made page two was about changing parking regulations going into winter. What on earth would anyone want to look at my computer for? Even when it came to murders, I never printed any of the clues we uncovered in the paper. The Witches Murder Club was my own private hobby, and no one in town should have known I was even involved in solving most of the murders around here, let alone connect it to the newspaper.

So, what was going on? Why was someone spying on my stuff?

Whoever it was, they had covered their tracks pretty well. The laptop screen still had the same tab open to the Facebook group where I’d found Eric’s comment. Whatever they were looking for, they had closed it after they were finished.

And then, it also hit me: whoever this was had to have magical powers. I’d closed the laptop lid before I left, which meant that the computer would have gone to sleep. That was how it operated. And for someone else to get in here and open it again, they needed my password.

Now, admittedly, I was not exactly a person who generated random, wildly secure passwords. I had never really seen the need for it, and it wasn’t like I was hiding anything super secret on this computer. My password was “stormbancroftisthebest.” I know, I know.

But I still didn’t think that was the sort of thing anyone would guess on a whim. Except maybe Ashley and Logan. They knew me well enough to figure out I would use that as a password. But someone else? No way.

That could only mean one thing: whoever had broken in here to spy on my stuff had magical powers.

I frowned. What were they looking for? Glancing at the window, I realized it was open.

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