Magical Dames and Dating Games by Amy Boyles

Author:Amy Boyles [Boyles, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LADYBUGBOOKS LLC
Published: 2019-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

We found Watts Pugh in his garden planting mums for the upcoming fall season.

“Mr. Pugh?”

Watts shoved his trowel into the dirt and glanced up. “Ms. Calhoun.” He tugged off his gloves and extended his hand. “It’s just awful, isn’t it? Terrible about Frankie.”

“It is.”

Though I thought Watts was only going to shake my hand, instead he pulled me into a rough hug.

“Oh.” The wind rushed from my lungs as I battered against his chest. “How’re you holding up?”

Watts released me and gestured to his flower patch. “It’s the only thing that keeps me busy. If I think about it too much, it hurts.”

I grimaced, feeling his pain. Not because I knew what it was like to miss Frankie, but because I knew from experience that losing someone hurt, often like you’d sliced out your own heart and tossed it on a barbecue to be scorched.

“If you have some time, maybe we can go inside and talk about it.”

Watts hesitated. He glanced at his front door and shook his head. “Now’s not a good time. I’ve been pretty upset, broke some things in the house.”

He collapsed to his knees and wept. Watts covered his eyes as sobs racked his body. “I thought she was the one. I thought we’d get together, make it work, last forever. But it wasn’t to be.”

Here’s where the tricky part came in. I almost hated to bring it up, but I had no choice.

I cleared my throat. “I heard you moved here recently, just before Frankie showed up. Bentley Falls?”

“Yep,” he said.

“Isn’t that where Frankie lived before coming here?”

He sniffled. “It’s funny how fate puts two people together, isn’t it?”

Watts glanced up at me. Tears bubbled in his eyes. “I’d known about Frankie forever, of course I had. I’d seen her but never imagined I could possibly have been her soul mate. When she appeared in Witch’s Forge and I was one of the chosen, I couldn’t believe it. It was finally my chance to bond with her, get to know this woman I’d admired from afar for so long.”

He inhaled as if smelling a bouquet of flowers. A blissful expression crossed his face. “It was a dream come true to meet her. Now she’s dead. Dead!”

Watts buried his face in his hands. He sobbed to the point where it was uncomfortable—for me.

I still needed to talk to Tex.

What was the best way to untangle myself from a grown man blubbering into his mums?

Very carefully?

“Mr. Pugh, can I get you anything?”

He reached for me, and I extended my arm. Watts proceeded to shift all his weight onto me. I lurched forward and locked my knees to avoid falling over.

“No, Charming.” Snot dripped from his nose. I almost barfed. “I’m okay. I’ll be all right. I’m just waiting for the funeral, when I can bury Frankie and move on with my life. If I can ever move on.”

He shook his fist at the sky. “Why her? Why’d you have to take her?”

“Well, it’s funny you should ask,” I said.

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