Shadow Witch (Torrent Witches Cozy Mysteries Book 6) by Tess Lake

Author:Tess Lake [Lake, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tess Lake
Published: 2017-01-21T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I awoke with fire in my belly and a newfound sense of purpose. I also awoke to a well-chewed brown toy mouse sitting on my pillow and a message from Mom saying that there was an important announcement tonight and asking me to come to dinner, which was a surprise in itself because usually such things were worded as an instruction rather than a request.

“Good morning, George,” I said to the brown mouse and then flicked him off my pillow onto the floor. Adams appeared from nowhere under the bed, scooped him up and then disappeared again. I got out of bed feeling energized and fresh. Partially it was the nap I’d taken yesterday and then all the sleep I’d had last night that had revived me, but also it was the sense that I would be able to solve whatever this was. With the help of my cousins, progress would be made, mysteries would be unraveled.

I left my room and found said cousins making breakfast and scheming how to get their boyfriends to take an unauthorized day off work. Since the coffee machine was out of action for a few days until the part arrived, Molly and Luce were definitely at a loose end, so they were both tapping away on their phones, messaging Ollie and Will.

“Morning, family,” I said and took a seat at the breakfast bar, stealing a piece of Molly’s toast.

“Where would you go if you wanted to go out but you didn’t want to be seen by anybody?” Luce asked.

“Harlot Bay is a small place. I’m not sure that’s possible,” I said, stealing a bit of Molly’s omelet.

“I think one of us should get this end of the mansion and the other one should have to find somewhere to go,” Molly said, clearly meaning it was her who should get use of the mansion and Luce should find somewhere else to go.

“If you want to rock, paper, scissors for it, I’m game,” Luce said.

“No way, you always cheat,” Molly said.

“How can I cheat? Just because you lose all the time doesn’t mean I’m cheating,” Luce said. It was true that Molly had a terrible history of winning rock, paper, scissors against Luce.

They started bickering a bit as they plotted and planned, and amongst that I stole enough of their breakfasts to fill myself up. I got myself ready, said goodbye and left them to it. When I walked out of the front door, I was feeling energetic, well fed and possessed of a plan that I was sure would work. By the time I was driving down the hill, I was starting to have second thoughts about going to see Hattie. I could all too easily remember her whacking me across the knuckles with a ruler. I’d also remembered that I didn’t really trust her that much and that she’d crept into my office on her own, according to her to check if a spell had been cast on me.

By the time I reached the middle of town, those small doubts had grown in size.

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