Null Witch: Secondhand Magic #1 by Lori Drake

Author:Lori Drake [Drake, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clockwork Cactus Press
Published: 2019-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The next morning, I woke to the smell of coffee and bacon. I felt like I’d run a marathon. Everything ached, but those fragrant aromas were enough to lure me out of bed. I shuffled down the hallway wearing yesterday’s clothes and found Matt in the kitchen making breakfast but my brother nowhere to be found. I didn’t miss him.

“My people demand coffee,” I mumbled.

He laughed and supplied me with a fresh mug. I leaned against the counter to sip while he served up a couple of plates. French toast, eggs and bacon. He’ll make someone a great wife one day.

I wasn’t fully awake, but it wasn’t hard to notice that there were only two plates and nothing left over for a third. “Where’s Dan?” I asked, trailing him out of the kitchen to the table and settling in front of the plate he set down for me.

“Not sure. He was gone when I got up.” He set his own plate down and slipped into a chair. Everything we could possibly want was already on the table. “I figured he didn’t deserve breakfast anyway.”

I snorted, nodding as I set my mug down on the table and reached for the syrup. “Preach it, sister.”

The French toast got a light drizzle in the thick, sugary liquid, but after a moment I went ahead and gave the bottle an extra squeeze to squirt out about twice as much, indulging my morning petulance with extra calories.

“How are you feeling?” Matt asked, buttering his French toast.

“Like I want my normal boring life back.” I cut into my French toast and speared a bite on the tines of my fork.

Chuckling, he shook his head. “Em, your life has never been normal or boring. I know you like to think it is, but it’s not.”

“Well, it was normal-er and boring-ish,” I muttered in between bites of food. “This is delicious, thanks. But shouldn’t you be at work?”

“It’s Sunday.”

“Oh. Right.”

“Anyway, I wanted to talk to you, so I’m glad Dan made himself scarce.”

I smirked. “Yeah. Making himself scarce seems to be his thing, these days.”

Matt said nothing to defend my brother. He didn’t really know him, after all, his only experience being limited to the previous night’s events.

“Be that as it may…” He paused to bite into a piece of bacon that he’d dragged through the syrup on his plate. “You’ve been through a lot in the last few days. Particularly in the last twenty-four hours. It might be a good idea to take a few minutes to stop and assess.”

“Ah, yes, the voice of reason.” I eyed him over the rim of my coffee mug as I took another sip. “I’m afraid if I do that I might end up in a quivering ball of uselessness.”

“That’s what I’m here for.” He smiled gently.

“To be a quivering ball of uselessness?”

Chuckling, he shook his head. “To make sure you don’t stay one for too long. So, talk to me. How are you feeling? Really. Don’t be flippant.”

I sighed, pushing food around with my fork.

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