Dust Off Your Magic (Shadow Vale Witches Book 1) by Claire Robyns

Author:Claire Robyns [Robyns, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-10T23:00:00+00:00

TEN

Heather wanted to be dropped off at the lake. I didn’t ask. I let her out at the turn off and continued on to the cottage. I was itching to go see Tabetha, but that wasn’t a conversation for the workplace. Since I didn’t have her home address, I planned on catching her outside the town hall at the end of office hours.

Noel was lounging in the swing seat on the porch. I’d left the front door open for him, which probably wasn’t the smartest move. We didn’t get a lot of crime here—and I sincerely doubted Heather’s murder was a random act of violence—but we did still tend to lock our doors when we weren’t at home.

“Any joy from the lawyer?” Noel asked as I walked up.

I leaned a hip against the railing and filled him in on Mr. Wilks’ time of death strategy, and my very valid suspicions about Paul. I was just getting to the end of my story when my phone dinged.

Squinting at the phone screen in the glare of the midday sun, I tapped the notification.

Grey: Where are you?

Me: Home.

Grey: On my way. We need to talk.

Since he was being all bossy and it was lunchtime. Me: Bring Jo-Jo.

Jo Jo’s pizzas were the best in town, freshly cooked without the wait. He kept a steady supply of his popular orders coming out the ovens during the lunch and dinner rush.

When I tucked the phone into the back pocket of my jeans without a word, Noel looked at me expectantly. I didn’t feel obliged to keep him in the loop on every little detail of my life, but I did see the sudden complications that could arise with Grey’s visit.

“Heather’s at the lake,” I suggested. “I’m sure she’d enjoy some company and it’s a pleasant stroll.”

“That woman is a nightmare.”

He wasn’t wrong. “You’ve been cooped up here all morning and the lake is big enough for the both of you. She’s on the north end. You take the south.”

“Subtlety was never your strong suit, Krissie.” He stood, dusting down his jeans. “Why are you trying to get rid of me?”

Because Grey didn’t know about my ghost problem.

“I have a friend coming over for lunch. If you insist on sticking around, then for the love of all gods, at least sit in a corner and butt out of the conversation. It would be nice to have five darn minutes to myself without the living dead pecking at my ear.”

Out of all that, he picked out, “A male friend?”

I pushed away from the railing in a huff. “It’s not like that, and it’s none of your beeswax if it were.”

Grey was a friend. The fact that he was male was totally irrelevant. Well, except for the huge crush that had hit me out of nowhere the summer I turned fifteen. That had been a mortifying experience and best forgotten.

Grey was even more sinfully gorgeous now than he’d ever been, but that wasn’t the reason I ran upstairs to my attic bedroom to freshen up.

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