First Do No Charm (Midlife Magic Book 1) by Joan Grey

Author:Joan Grey [Grey, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Joke Press
Published: 2021-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

KAY GAPED AT HER. “VAMPIRE? Are you serious? What, and next you’ll tell me that nice Victor Fox is a werewolf.”

Valery peered at her. “No. Werewolves aren’t real. They’re pretend, like fairies and mermaids.” She crossed her arms. “How do you not know this already? Everyone knows this stuff.”

Kay stared at her. “You’re not kidding? What the actual fuck, you’re telling me there are vampires and you don’t care?”

“Keep your voice down,” Valery said. “And of course we don’t care. Why should we? Every Family has a working relationship with the local Clade, it’s how most of the local kids get to go to college.” She stepped forward. “Now, why are you surprised? Are you not a witch?”

Kay drew herself up. “I am.” Then she slumped a bit. “But I...” The looks on the faces of the people she’d met at the meeting Charlotte had brought her to flashed across her memory. “But I wasn’t raised here. I moved here to go to college.”

Valery didn’t look like she liked this answer, but Kay didn’t care. “I have to go now. To meet Holly.” Kay turned for the door and heard Valery following her.

“Thank you for your help,” Valery said, leading her back through the bullpen and out to the front waiting room. “I’ll call again if I have any more questions.”

Kay nodded, then rushed through the room and out the door, throwing herself into her car and sitting, hands clenching the steering wheel, staring blindly out the windshield. Vampires? How long have there been vampires?

She tried a few times to get the key into the ignition, then stopped and let her head fall forward to the steering wheel. “What the fuck?” She took a couple deep breaths and tried it all again.

As she pulled into the lot behind the library, she called Charlotte.

“Yes?” Charlotte sounded distracted, but Kay barely noticed.

“When were you going to tell me that vampires are real?”

Charlotte was silent for long enough that Kay checked her phone to make sure they hadn’t been cut off. Then she said, “I forgot you wouldn’t know.”

“Is there anything else you’re forgetting to tell me?” Kay knew she sounded angry, but she was beginning to feel like nothing she’d been told was true. “And how can a person be from a magical family but not be a witch?”

“I told you that, I thought. It runs in families, but not everyone gets it. So you can have witch and non-witch family members, but they’re all from the same family. And often, non-witch people will have magic-capable kids, so it’s a good idea to stick to the family anyway.”

Kay leaned her head back against the head rest of her car seat. “Could that be why my bio parents gave me up? Because I wasn’t magical?”

“No!” She sounded shocked. “No, there’s no stigma. And if you were adopted when you were around one, you’d have been too young for it to really show. And we’re people, just like... well. Just like anyone else. We want all our kids.

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