Doom and Broom (Wicked Witches of Coventry Book 2) by Sara Bourgeois

Author:Sara Bourgeois [Bourgeois, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed despite having drank too much of the magic feel-good potion. After a good stretch and a long yawn, I got out of bed.

Meri jumped down behind me, and we made our way down to the kitchen for breakfast. He stretched out in a patch of sun streaming through one of the windows while I perused our options in the fridge.

“You want an egg?” I asked. “I think I’m going to have some over-easy eggs and toast.”

“Yeah, I’ll take an egg,” he said and stretched.

“You want it over-easy?”

“Sounds good to me.”

While I fried the eggs in butter and made toast, Meri snoozed under the window. It had to be nice to get out of bed and take a nap right away.

Once breakfast was ready, I put Meri’s egg on a small plate and set it on the table next to mine. I didn’t relish having a cat on the table, but it didn’t seem right to make him eat on the floor.

“What are you going to do today?” Meri asked in between lapping his egg yolk.

“I don’t know. I could pull more weeds, but the grass needs to be tackled too. Perhaps I’ll go out the garden shed and see if I can get that old mower working. If I can, I’ll start cutting the grass at the cemetery. I need to do that before I clean the headstones.”

With breakfast done and the dishes washed, I headed out to the shed. Once I’d moved a bunch of tools out of the way, I backed the old push mower out of the shed.

The first time I yanked the cord to start it, the thing barely moved. I had no idea you had to pull so hard to get it started. I put my back into the second pull and got the mower to stutter.

Unfortunately, sputtering was the best I was going to get. Even after several pulls, the mower refused to come to life.

“Come on, please,” I asked it.

When I pulled again, I got nothing. The old lawn mower had given up the ghost.

“I don’t think it’s going to work,” Meri said.

He’d come outside to watch me struggle with the mower. Meri got up from his place under a tree and sauntered over to where I was fighting with the mower.

“Maybe it just needs gas or oil or something. Can’t you do anything?”

“I could if it wasn’t trash, but Brighton, that mower is gone. You’re going to need a new one.”

“I can go buy one, I guess. I should go cash the check. I can use the money to get a new mower. Plus, I better cash it before Remy and Ralph get the contract voided. Neither one of them likes me right now.”

“Remy will get over it, Brighton,” Meri said.

“I’m still going to go cash the check. I guess I’ll be back in a little while with a new mower.”

I went up to the attic and got the check. When I came back down to the first floor, Meri was on the hearth.

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