Mintwood's Magical Map by Addison Creek

Author:Addison Creek [Creek, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-04T06:00:00+00:00

Hansen and Charlie had moved their conversation to the living room by the time we got back to the house, but they were basically just waiting for me to get back. Greer decided to try to sleep some more despite the hammering, and the rest of us headed over to Gracie’s.

“I called and told her we’d be there soon,” said Charlie.

“Great. We can go there first, then I can drop Hansen off at work while I go speak with Geraldine,” I said.

Charlie looked nervous, but nodded. “That sounds good.”

We had just made it to the end of the driveway when a familiar car pulled up in front of us, bringing Scarlett and Josephine for an unexpected visit. I stopped the Beetle but left it running, then I checked to be sure that my wand was tucked safely into my sleeve.

“Stay here,” I told my friends.

Charlie looked fearful, while Hansen took a deep breath. I got of the car and went to meet my fellow witches.

“You two okay?” was the first thing I asked them.

They too had gotten out of their car and were walking toward me, looking wary. Neither of them was dressed in witch clothing today. Scarlett was wearing a simple flowered dress with black stockings underneath, while Josephine had put on a mishmash of ripped jeans, boots, and a button down under a jacket with a T-shirt peeking below the bottom edge.

“We’re fine,” said Scarlett. But her eyes were puffy and her face was pale. “Once all of us got angry,” she went on, “the ghosts turned tail and ran. I believed the fat one when he said they hadn’t come for a confrontation. I think they simply came to make a point. Which they did.”

“It doesn’t make sense. You were leaving them alone until they attacked,” I said.

“There’s a good chance they’re not the smartest bunch,” said Josephine dryly.

Scarlett looked past me to the car, where Charlie was sitting, afraid, and Hansen was feeling who knew what.

“I’m afraid you can’t have him,” I said quietly.

Two pairs of eyes turned to me. “Geraldine made it clear that I was to apologize. Josephine too. That apparently is not how things are done,” said Scarlett. She hung her head. “It was just so frightening. We had never thought much about the risk of exposure before. Then all of a sudden someone was writing about us in the paper as if he knew all about it.”

Inside, my relief was enormous. All I said out loud was, “So what now?”

“The only issue is what Rosalie wants. As of this morning she still wanted to take a vote. Geraldine was making it clear that it was your problem,” said Josephine.

I almost rolled my eyes. I was getting kind of tired of hearing that the coven didn’t have any interest in helping with the ghosts, or Ellie, but I was glad enough that they might have decided to leave Hansen to me. If they left him alone and never thought of him again, that was really all we could ask for.

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