Torrent Witches Cozy Mysteries Box Set #2 Books 4-6 (Fabulous Witch, Holiday Witch, Shadow Witch) by Tess Lake

Author:Tess Lake [Lake, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tess Lake
Published: 2017-06-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The café section of Hoodoo Voodoo was actually three small tables with chairs that sat where their rack of imitation skulls used to be. A tourist couple was sitting at one table eating toasted sandwiches and drinking coffee, and Jack was at one of the others browsing through a book of voodoo magic spells when I arrived.

“Planning on cursing someone?” I said when I walked up to the table.

“I thought I could use a zombie, you know, help me out with renovations,” Jack quipped and then stood up and gave me a kiss. We sat down and he slid the menu across at me before putting the book down.

“Arrested for underage drinking, my oh my. Is this what the Torrent cousins get up to on a cousins’ night?” he asked.

He was smiling at me, but I still felt a burst of embarrassment that we had been caught and, yes, we had lied to our boyfriends. I blushed, my face turning as red as a tomato. He laughed and grabbed my hand.

“I’m joking. Joking. I don’t care. I trust you,” he said.

It had already been an emotionally fraught morning, what with waking up after being caught by the police the night before, then our moms coming with hellfire and brimstone, and now this? Jack saying he trusted me?

I almost told him.

I almost blurted it out right there in Hoodoo Voodoo, adjacent to the fake skulls and black candles and other weird bits of fake magical junk they sold, with tourists sitting nearby eating their toasted ham, cheese and tomato sandwiches. I nearly blurted out to him that I was a witch. The words came right up to my lips, but then I held them back. I knew I would have to tell him eventually, and being that he was a good man—maybe one of the best men I had ever met—I knew he would take it well, or I guessed he would. But it was always one of the trials a witch had to go through and it wasn’t uncommon for the men they told to leave them shortly after. Then the witch had to wipe their minds or risk being exposed.

Next year. Next year, I told myself. I’ll tell him next year.

“I trust you too,” I finally said and squeezed his hands.

Since he’d been working a lot more, his hands had become rougher. I don’t think I’d seen him recently without some kind of a patched-up injury and other scratches he had obtained from working on his house. I plucked a small fragment of wood out of his hair and put it on the table.

“Dining room wall, had to go,” Jack said.

Hoodoo Voodoo was an order-at-the-counter type of place, and after the rough night and even rougher morning I’d had, I decided to go with comfort food and ordered a toasted ham, cheese and tomato sandwich and a mochaccino. Jack ordered the same and then went to the counter to pay for it all before coming back and sitting down across from me.

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