Witch Hunt by Marie Batiste

Author:Marie Batiste [Batiste, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Listen Gingerbread

“Listen gingerbread!” I shouted to the auburn-haired detective that stood in front of me. “I’m here to see Detective Warren.”

He stood in front of the elevator with his arms folded and wouldn’t budge.

“We don’t need some private investigator interfering with our cases,” he said. “Why don’t you be a good little girl and go home?”

“Listen you—” started Lola as she lunged at him.

I grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back. The usual Desk Sergeant had been replaced with Officer Gingerbread, who wouldn’t let us up to see Detective Warren.

“I come here all the time. I’m working on a case with Detective Warren, just call him,” I said.

“I told you I don’t care. And he’s not here,” said the officer.

“You didn’t even check,” said Lola.

“Okay. Okay,” interrupted Detective Warren. He appeared from the front door of the precinct. “Hello, Miss Moondance. I was on my lunch break. How can I help you?”

“I needed to talk to you about something,” I whispered.

“It’s fine Dave. Hazel is one of the good ones,” he said to the big, burly detective. “Come with me ladies we can talk upstairs.”

Lola and I followed him up to his desk and sat down.

“So, what can I do for you?” he asked.

“I found something interesting about Rose’s case, but I need to ask you a couple of things first,” I answered.

“Okay. Shoot,” he replied. He leaned back in his chair, clasped his hands, and rested them on his belly.

“You said there were other women that had gone missing,” I started, “How many went to the same college as Rose?”

“Um- give me one minute,” he said as he ruffled through some papers in his desk. “Here it is. Ten.”

“Okay. Are those the witches?” I asked.

“Yes. These were the witches that went missing,” he answered.

“Do you know what classes they were taking?” I asked.

“Uh- not offhand. But I can look it up. Give me a few minutes,” he answered. Detective Warren typed away on his computer for five minutes. “Okay, what am I looking for?”

“Advanced Spells,” I answered.

After another five minutes he said, “Huh, that’s strange.”

“They all took the same class,” I stated.

“Yeah,” he leaned back in his chair.

“Taught by Professor Pierce?” I asked.

“Yes,” he answered. “Now what is this about?”

“Rose was also in Advanced Spells taught by Professor Pierce. He made advances towards her, and it was rumored he had done that with some other girls as well. I talked to her friend Wolf who told me about Rose’s secret boyfriend. He tried to follow them once, but the boyfriend had a cloaking spell that made it difficult,” I explained.

“Okay. So, let me guess Professor Pierce has what someone would need to do a spell like that?” he asked.

“Yes. And he said he taught the spell in his class. I know this isn’t enough to arrest him but—”

“It would be enough to bring him in for a talking to,” finished Detective Warren.

“Well, Wolf saw the guy from the back, and he doesn’t match the professor’s description, but I figured he might know something,” I said.

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