Unhappening Ever After (A Wayfair Witches' Cozy Mystery #16) by A.A. Albright

Author:A.A. Albright [Albright, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

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Dudley and Dizzy had been trailing behind me as I walked to the school. Dudley was back in full-on detective mode, and he and Dizzy had a lot of things to investigate along the way. Things like trampled blades of grass, pieces of rubbish, and suspicious-looking people. They caught up with me just as I sat down across from Candace, giving me a full report of all of the nothing they had found.

‘Did you ask her about the Heartstone yet?’ Dizzy asked, when they’d completed their report.

‘I was just getting to it.’ I looked at Candace. We were sitting at her very neat desk in her very neat office, drinking cups of perfectly-made tea. ‘There’s an object we’re looking for. I can’t tell you how it might be connected to the murders, but it’s important that we find it. It wouldn’t look like much at first glance – a dull-yellow stone with a sort of a spiralling pattern, but–’

‘The Swap Stone,’ she interrupted. ‘Well, yeah. I mean, I realise that it has other names, but I knew instantly what it was when it appeared in the school.’

‘You did? How?’

‘You know perfectly well that I’m an expert in many areas, Dark Objects and Instruments included. So when the stone appeared in the storage basement a few days ago, the very first thing I did was to contact the Wayfarers. The Riddler’s Cove branch, because of your Dark Objects Division. I reported it to Todge. I wanted to talk to you about it, of course, but … everyone says you just spend every day at the graveyard now, so I wasn’t sure. I checked with Todge, and he said he’d deal with it. But he didn’t. I mean, how could he? No one could even pick it up. I was on the verge of going over his head when … well, Maureen was killed. Did Todge at least tell you that Maureen’s favourite student was the only one the stone had any reaction to?’

I sat forward, my heart racing. ‘Missy Haynes?’

‘That’s the one. She took a night class in Politics.’

On my shoulder, Dizzy shook his head and said, ‘Unhappenings might not rehappen, but they often rhyme.’

With a roll of her eyes, Candace said, ‘The saying is history, Dizzy. History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.’

Dizzy blew a raspberry at Candace and flew off to take a look around. Taking his cue from my bat, Dudley leapt from my lap with his magnifying glass – and his pipe, of course – at the ready. After scouring the room in its entirety, the two of them headed out into the corridor.

‘That rat smells,’ said Candace. She and I had both been fixated on Dudley’s and Dizzy’s antics for the last few minutes.

‘Nothing that can’t be remedied with his favourite bubble bath,’ I replied. ‘Anyway, Missy Haynes?’

‘Ah. Yes. So, she was on her way out on the night classes broke up for the summer, when she just suddenly started to walk down to the basement. I followed her and asked her what she was doing, but she didn’t seem to know I was there.

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