Moonshine and Manslaughter: A Hillbilly Hexes Cozy Mystery by Ellie Moses

Author:Ellie Moses [Moses, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

8

Monday morning, I awoke to find my alarm had been ringing for half an hour. I turned the darned thing off and stumbled from my bed. I’d spent the rest of the weekend studying the ley lines of Hell County, where Devil’s Elbow was situated.

I knew them well enough, but the dark magick hanging over my beloved mountains had deeply affected the way they worked with my bright magick. There was a disturbance and it all seemed connected to me.

As I gathered my towel and fuzzy slippers, the thought hit me that maybe the killer or killers weren’t after Billy Jack after all, but me. Whoever was using their hoodoo in my neck of the woods would know if they messed with him, they messed with me.

But all I did was place the wards, it wasn’t like I was running shine. That would be apparent to anyone with half a brain.

Ray came in the shower with me and I told him my suspicion. “Does it make any sense at all that someone would be after me? What do I have that they would want?”

He moved his ghostly hands over the bubbles covering my entire body and I felt his presence to the core of my being. It was a warmth that flooded me and made me feel complete.

It was a bitter pill that half of me died the day Ray went off that hairpin turn and head on into an old oak tree. I sighed as he made me feel things I hadn’t in a long time.

His voice filled my head. “Maybe they didn’t mean for Billy Jack to come wandering up on them at still #4. Maybe they only wanted to draw you out and use you for some purpose they couldn’t accomplish without you or your powers.”

I turned to face the warm spray of water, my back to Ray. “If that’s true, they could find me right here. I’m not hiding from anyone.”

“But you’re protected here by your own magic, Granny’s magic, Delilah’s powers, and my presence. This building is practically the safest place in all the county. No, if they were after you, they’d have wanted you to come to the still #4 where their magick still lingers.”

An icy finger crawled up my spine in spite of the fact that I had turned again so the warm water from the shower-head could wash away the soap on my back.

I drew in a breath at the idea of someone coming for me. I was just a mountain witch in the hills of Kentucky.

Ray left me in the shower with parting words. “You ain’t just any mountain witch, Jolene. You are as powerful as Granny Mack. Your bright magick is stronger than their dark magick, but they’ve found a way to tap the old ley lines and turn them to their wicked ways.”

I pulled my long hair to one side and squeezed out the water as I fussed at Ray. “Just because my mind is an open book don’t mean you have to read it Ray Dang Davis!”

His ghostly chuckle only added salt to the wound.

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