Deadly Spells and a Southern Belle by Amy Boyles

Author:Amy Boyles [Boyles, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LADYBUGBOOKS LLC
Published: 2019-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

The manor, as I had started referring to it in my head, was quiet. Almost too quiet.

Rose, my mother, the pig and myself sat in the bushes about a hundred yards away.

“Do you think this is far enough that he can’t hear us?” I said.

“From all my studies, yes,” my mother said. “It looks dark in there. I don’t think he’s home.”

“What about a manservant?” Rose said. “In the movies vampires always have manservants.”

“I didn’t see one when I was here before,” I said.

“You were here before?” Mama snapped.

I dismissed her concern with a wave. “Yes, and I’m still alive. At least I have an idea of where to go. So. How do we get in?”

My mother pulled a hairpin from her hair. “Leave that to me.”

Ten minutes later the three of us were stumbling around in the dark manor.

Someone clomped on my toe. “Ow!”

“Sorry,” Rose whimpered. “Glinda, we need light.”

A moment later a ball of water glowing with light appeared in my mother’s palm.

“Show-off,” I murmured.

She shot me a dark look. “Sorry,” I said. “Forgot about the truce.”

“Open your hand,” she commanded.

Two more balls of light appeared—one in my palm and one in Rose’s.

“We need to split up,” I said.

“Oh no,” Rose argued. “That’s how people die in the movies.”

“What is it with you comparing everything to movies?” I said.

She shrugged. “I just thought popular culture was an easy reference to make.”

“You have the pig with you.”

“I’ll stay with Rose,” Mama said, sighing. “We’ll check down here.”

“I’ll head to the bedroom,” I said. “If there’s proof the vamp did something to Jimmy, then I want to know about it.”

I slowly stepped up the marble staircase. See? Manor. This house stuck out like a sore thumb on steroids.

The ball of water and light wobbled in my hand. I was surprised my mother hadn’t been really cocky and stuck a goldfish in the middle of it.

Her voiced floated up the staircase. “I didn’t put a fish in it because the light might’ve hurt its eyes.”

I shook my head. Typical that she’d figure out what I was thinking.

I sighed and pushed on, remembering I was in the lair of a vampire. If he caught us, we’d be supper—literally. We had to be quick and quiet.

At the top of the stairs several doors broke off to the left. I slowly opened the first one and found it to be a guest bedroom.

The second door was the same, as was the third. Finally I reached a set of double doors. The hinges squeaked when I opened them. I cringed. Thank goodness the vamp wasn’t here.

Behind the door sat a suite of rooms. The furnishings were simple if not lavishly built.

“Bingo,” I whispered.

The first thing I noticed was the smell. The room smelled of Thorne—wet grass, vanilla and a hint of musk.

Not that I’d wanted to notice how the man smelled, but I couldn’t help it when he stood right over me the night that Langdon had been killed.

Lots of dark wood sprinkled the room. From what I could tell the walls were a hunter green.

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