The Cat in the Lighthouse (A Mystic Cove Witches Paranormal Cozy Mystery Book 2) by Lilly Graves

Author:Lilly Graves [Graves, Lilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Breezy Reads
Published: 2021-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

As soon as day breaks, the pale sunlight pours into the lighthouse, making me blink and stretch in response. I look over to the spot the beast had been sleeping last night. He’s there, awake, sitting against his side of the circular wall. He’s back to his human self, in pants but no shirt.

“Today is a new day,” I say.

“A new day,” he replies cynically. “I guess I should be happy. I’m still free.”

“I’m going to find that mystery man who saw the murder and get to the bottom of this. Then I can return my focus to my mother. I mean, the original case.”

Sy doesn’t seem to notice my slip up. He simply nods, looking melancholy.

“Sy, I really want to help you too. Not just clear your name with Maggie’s murder, but really help you get your reputation back.”

“I don’t know if that can ever happen.”

“Well, I can at least try. I think it’s possible. And nobody needs to know about your shifting secret other than me, and my lips are sealed. Well, technically, I don’t have lips at the moment.” I point with a paw to my whiskered face. “But you know what I mean.”

“I’m grateful for that. Over the last couple of decades, I haven’t known of anyone who believes in me. The last person I’d expect to be on my side is a cat.”

He doesn’t know of the vision I had of him and my mom. He doesn’t know of the inspired feelings I get, like from the afterlife, either from my mother or my fairy godwitch Annabelle, that tell me I can trust Sy. He does, however, know that I saw the way Maggie treated him when locked up at Shady Pines.

In order to succeed at my next item of business, I need to be back in my human form. I need to go talk to Marney about that customer. Which means I need to shift.

“How do you shift back?” I ask.

“It automatically happens at daybreak. Just like how it automatically happens at nightfall during a full moon.” He shrugs his shoulders.

“Hm, just during a full moon?”

“Yep. Which gives me some relief. I don’t turn into a monster every single night.”

“Maggie told me you have lycanthropy, which would mean you’d only believe you’re a wolf. But you are a wolf.”

“Shady Pines is like a fortress. I never saw the light of day or night when locked in there. The moon’s light can’t penetrate those stone walls enough to change me. But it still had a strong enough effect to create mood swings and viscous headaches.”

“I can shift night or day,” I say. “The downside is that I need someone to help it happen every single time, and that can be really inconvenient.”

“What do I gotta do?” he asks, ready.

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