Truly Madly Magically by Hazel Beck

Author:Hazel Beck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graydon House Books
Published: 2024-05-30T15:55:14+00:00

16

THERE IS SOMETHING about going to visit my father’s side of the family that always fills me with dread. That something is dealing with Bill, obviously, but add the overly, desperately cheerful Stephanie always trying to smooth things over so we can be one big happy family, and I’d rather just stay the hell away.

Tragically, I enjoy my sisters. Who are also cursed through our father’s bloodline thanks to my mother—though they, as full humans, know nothing of witches or magic or curses. Everyone calls them forthright. Direct. Stephanie despairs of their lack of tact no matter how she tries to teach them the polite benefit of a little white lie or two.

Only I know they can’t lie.

I’ll admit this brings me more enjoyment than it should.

Stephanie tries to convince me to meet at the house before the football game. Dinner! Drinks! Anything to get me into her over-perfumed but well-meaning orbit.

I tell her I’ll meet them at the game. I should probably warn them I’m bringing Zander...but I don’t. This might or might not have something to do with the fact that I’m in Zander’s truck, like we really are sixteen all over again, fielding these texts from my stepmother.

“Don’t you want to tell them before the game?” he asks in what is, for him, a neutral tone of voice.

“No. Brynleigh should have her moment. She loves the spotlight.”

He spares me a glance, all gray amusement that I pretend I can’t feel inside me like heat. “Coward.”

I could argue. Maybe I try. But okay, I’m a coward.

Obviously that means I have no choice but to turn it around on him. “You didn’t bring your letterman jacket out of storage? You and Bill could talk glory days. How many touchdowns did you make in a single game?”

“He doesn’t still tell those stories,” Zander says as he maneuvers his truck through the human high school parking lot.

I make sure I’m looking right at him as I say, “Of course he does. All the time.”

Not a single lie to be found.

Zander shakes his head as he finds us a prime parking place in the overcrowded lot in what the humans would call another example of his ridiculous good luck, but we both know is a quickly muttered spell.

Truth be told, my dad loved Zander back in the day. Adored him. In fairness, that’s a pretty common reaction. Zander has always been talented at being well-liked just about everywhere he goes.

You could try being nice, you know, he would tell me, back when I did my best to ignore Stephanie to her face. And Bill, but more rudely.

I can’t lie, I would reply. Smugly.

They might actually have mourned harder than I did when we broke up.

Zander buys us our tickets, and we file toward the stands. I didn’t do a glamour, but I’m wearing something uncharacteristically loose so no one can tell I’ve got a bump unless they really look. A little human-level subterfuge. Hidden, but not hidden once I drop the bomb.

I scan the crowd looking for all that blond that will be the Wallace clan.

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