She shook the sad thought
away. She couldn’t worry about other magical families losing their spell books
right now. If she had a hunter in her town, then she needed to be prepared.
“Elise, you have to talk
to me,” said Rosemary.
“No, she doesn’t,” said
Ernest floating into the secret library. “If there’s a hunter here she needs to
get rid of him and fast. He’ll kill her and us, so to speak, if she doesn’t do
something.”
“Then why didn’t he kill
us the other day when he was in here?” asked Rosemary. “We were all off-guard,
it would have been easy for him.”
Roark jumped onto the
shelf and growled letting Rosemary know that he had been very much on-guard.
“You’re both right,” said
Elise. “I’ve gotten careless over the years. The spells around the valley have
kept paranormal beings, aside from witches, away, but nothing that prohibits
humans, whether they be hunters or not.”
She looked through her
shelves hoping that one of the many in her collection would have some answers
for her.
“Hunters come when you
give them reason to,” she continued. “I haven’t given hunters reason to invade
Apple Hill and neither have you three.” She pointed to Ernest and Rosemary. “Where’s
Dorothea?”
“She went to the Garvers,”
said Ernest, “to haunt.”
“Oh no,” said Elise, “if
she goes all poltergeist on him now, the hunter will have a reason to hurt her.”
“We all know Dorothea
only went over there to be closer to the mayor because she’s sweet on him,”
said Ernest. “She wouldn’t give the hunter cause to salt her.”
“That’s the very problem,”
said Elise nibbling on a fingernail. “We don’t know why he’s here, so we don’t
know what cause he’ll need. He might just be looking for a single reason and we
can’t let Dorothea’s crush on the mayor be that reason.” She looked at her
books, then shook her head. “I’ll have to research his name later. For now, we
can’t take the chance. I have to go to the mayor’s house and get Dorothea
before it’s too late.”
Dorothea hoovered over
Mayor Garver as he worked at his desk in his home office. She was careful to be
quiet and to not let her full apparition show.
She had been a ghost long
enough to know how her energy worked. She could disappear when she wanted and
appear when she wanted. As she watched the mayor with his thick white hair,
cherubic cheeks with just a hint of a glow, and his brow furrowed just a bit as
he concentrated she had to fight the urge to show herself.
She just knew if he saw
her, he’d be smitten too. They could love each other for a lifetime and then
some. Once he passed they could haunt City Hall together and help Elise as she
rid the town of the founders.
Dorothea felt a frown
cross her mouth. Would Elise let Mayor Garver stay as a ghost? Would he even
want to be a part of a curse that had driven his ancestors crazy for almost a century?
She wasn’t sure about the
last part, but her heart told her if the mayor saw her, he’d love her, just as
she loved him.
The thought of love made
her giggle and she let it escape on the air so it could be heard by the mayor.
He looked up with a start and hurried to the window. Dorothea giggled again,
knowing he was looking outside for a source of the laughter.
Mayor Garver shook his
head as sat back down.
“You’re hearing things
old man,” he said to himself as he sat down behind the desk again.
Dorothea felt a tingle of
nervous energy flow from the mayor and knew it was time to kick it up a notch.
She might be in love with him, but she was loyal to Elise. Her job now was to
haunt, the mayor could fall in love with her later.
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