Magical Blend by Kennedy Layne

Author:Kennedy Layne [Layne, Kennedy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Fiction, cozy, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781943420629
Publisher: Kennedy Layne Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Leo, how could you not remember that Jacob Blackleach was one of Nan’s clients?”

You’re the one who had the paper bags right in front of you. The names were scrawled across the front of each order, so don’t blame me because you missed it. I might be suffering from short term memory loss, but you’re the one who needs glasses.

I was at a loss. I no longer had Nan’s ledger to look through. Liam had confiscated the tiny treasure for the state police, leaving me with little to go on in solving Jacob Blackleach’s murder. The little bit of control I had over this situation had been taken out of my hands, and there wasn’t a thing I could do about it.

Well, that wasn’t entirely true.

I could vent to the odd-looking furball lounging on the coffee table in front of me as if he didn’t have a care in the world. He even had the audacity to continuously flick his tail. No, it wouldn’t do me any good to yell at a cat who could appear and disappear at will. Instead, I turned my attention on Ted, who looked as if he wanted to be anywhere but here.

“You know that all of this could have been avoided had the little Persian king himself told me this tiny bit of news. Did you know Jacob Blackleach was a client?”

“Yes.”

I closed my eyes and prayed for more patience, having already accepted that Ted’s short replies were going to be the death of me. Speaking of death…

“Ted, was he more than a client? Why would Jacob pretend to be Larry Butterball?”

Oh, that’s easy.

Leo squinted his eyes as if he were debating to share this enlightenment, but I took a step forward to show him that I was done playing around. I wasn’t sure I could take any more surprises with all this witchcraft talk.

Jacob wanted Rosemary’s spells. He needed them.

“What did Mr. Leo say?”

I hastily did a double take, believing I’d heard Ted wrong. I quickly realized that Ted couldn’t hear a word Leo said.

It appeared only I had that pleasure.

“Leo said that Jacob wanted Nan’s spells. Something about needing them,” I translated, grateful that I didn’t have to hide my conversations with a cat like I had to do earlier today in front of Liam and Larry. That could get downright exhausting. I’d never been good at keeping secrets, so my immediate future was looking pretty lonely. “Wait. Nan has a spell book, too? Not just for recipes?”

Yes.

“Jacob was your grandmother’s client, but he was also more than that.” Ted frowned at Leo, but it wasn’t because the cat hadn’t been right in his assumption of Jacob Blackleach. It had more to do with Leo only giving me the bare minimum of information. “Mr. Leo, tell the whole truth.”

Very well.

Leo flicked his tail a little harder on the wooden surface of the coffee table to show his displeasure. Why did he want to make things so difficult for me? I was beginning to get a complex over a cat that preferred his own death over my company.

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