Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Author:Meghan Ciana Doidge [Doidge, Meghan Ciana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-989571-17-0
Publisher: Meghan Ciana Doidge


Chapter 6

I was fairly certain that the witches must have replicated my stoneware set, because as the sorcerers filtered into the kitchen, more and more mugs kept getting pulled out of the cupboard. Plus the dishwasher was still full with the clean lunch dishes.

Isa started brewing a second pot of the organic Doke Black Fusion first flush when he, Khalid, Grosvenor, and I had been served. After liberally dosing their steaming mugs with milk and sugar, Khalid and the curse breaker wandered off into the front sitting room, each with a couple of ginger snaps in hand. Chatting about the spell work the curse breaker was in the middle of.

Aiden wandered in through the French-paned doors with his sisters, smiling and smelling of earth and sunshine. He set the harvest bin in the sink, then pulled out mugs for himself, Sky, and Ocean.

“Five more minutes,” Isa said as his brother reached for the teapot.

Aiden grunted amicably, snatched a ginger snap from the plate next to my elbow, and kissed me soundly before he leaned back against the counter next to the sink. His gaze rested on me warmly.

The time in the garden and with his sisters had clearly eased some of the tension the dark-haired sorcerer had been carrying. Perhaps being out of the suit made him feel more at home as well.

Sky sighed. “I guess I should take a tray up to Mom. She won’t come down.”

No one answered her as she pulled out the tea tray from the kitchen island cupboard, adding a mug, a plate with two cookies, and one of my blue-lace-trimmed napkins to it.

“Why not?” Aiden finally asked.

Sky shook her head, glancing at Isa.

The sorcerer regarded her calmly, taking a sip of his tea. He’d added only a splash of milk.

Sky grimaced. “She feels outnumbered,” she said to Aiden. “Even though I told her that you and Emma were on our side, and Grover is neutral.”

“Grover is not neutral,” Isa said calmly.

Sky frowned, then took one of the cookies she’d plated for her mother, nibbling on it.

“If anyone is neutral, it’s Emma,” Isa continued.

Ocean looked at me. “Really?”

Before I could answer, a quiet chiming sound filtered down the hall. I set my mug of tea down, listening. “What is that?”

Grosvenor shouted from the front sitting room. “Aiden, someone is calling on your iPad.”

Frowning, Aiden glanced at the clock on the hood fan above the stove. It was too early to be Opal. He pushed away from the counter, crossing swiftly into the study. I followed. A strange sense of doom compressed my chest, and I had to stop myself from shoving past Aiden. It was his iPad. Anyone could have been calling.

Ocean and Sky tucked up behind us.

By the time Aiden stepped into the study and reached for the iPad, which was still trilling away, sorcerers and witches filled the hall.

“It’s Opal,” Aiden said, settling into the desk chair and pressing the answer icon on the screen of the tablet.

Opal’s face filled the screen in profile.



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