Саманта Сильвер - Sleeping With The Fishes

We found the mother a few days ago. One of the locals remembered Lucy being stolen and reported it, although they weren’t able to find the smugglers in time to stop them. However, the local also remembered the mother, and was able to lead us to her. Horray for happy endings!

Tears welled up in my eyes as I read the email. Lucy had found her mother! It was the best ending I could have possibly hoped for. I also found out that Pericot and all of the other animals had been seized from Richard Steele’s farm and were returned back to their native environments. Hehu was well on his way to recovery as well, although it would still be at least a few weeks, maybe even a month before he was fully healed and able to be re-released into the New Zealand wilderness.

Jason also accepted my magical abilities far more readily than I had expected him to. In fact, I’m pretty sure his favorite part was the realization that animals could understand us when we spoke, even though I was the only person with the same ability in reverse. It led to me needing to translate a lot of conversations; Jason was extremely interested in talking to any and every animal we came across, so long as there wasn’t anyone around who could overhear. And the most surprising part was, Jason was the one who finally convinced Bee to let her kittens go and be adopted into good homes.

“I’ve decided you can disperse my kittens into the world,” Bee announced one morning while I was drinking a smoothie for breakfast.

“Oh yeah?” I asked with my eyebrows raised, naturally suspicious. This was Bee, after all.

“Yes,” Bee said, carefully licking one of her front paws. “I was speaking with that man you bring here. Jason, I believe his name is.” I smiled to myself; Bee never used Jason’s name. I thought she considered him competition for her affection.

“Ok. What did you and Jason speak about?”

“Well, he was talking to me about the kittens. And of course, he couldn’t understand my replies, but at one point he mentioned that if I allowed the kittens to be adopted out, I would be acting the way a tree does when it spreads its seeds. First there is a single tree–myself–and I spread the seeds–the kittens–around to other parts of Willow Bay. Then, the kittens have their own kittens, and they’re adopted out, and soon we will have infiltrated the humans from the inside. It is a much better plan than mine, which was to claim this property as my own and work onwards from there.”

“Ah,” I said, trying to bite back a smile. “Yes, that does sound better. So how about it? I’ll start looking for homes for the kittens, and in a few weeks you can send them off to infiltrate more Willow Bay residences?”

“Perfect,” Bee said. “I will go and prepare them for their tasks.”

I made a mental note to make sure the kittens only went to experienced homes. I didn’t want the kittens who had been raised by Bee to go to people who were new to cats. Absolutely not a chance.

It was easier than I expected it to be, getting used to not doing magic. A couple of times I’d forget that I couldn’t do it anymore, and would attempt a spell, only to be momentarily surprised when nothing happened. But all in all, it wasn’t too difficult a change to get used to.

Sophie announced about a week after Jake was arrested that she and Taylor were going to move in together into his place, since it had a view of the water.

“Well,” Jason said when I told him, playing with a loose strand of my hair, “I suppose that opens up some opportunities, doesn’t it?”

I smiled. “You want to come live at my place? You’re totally welcome, of course. I don’t think Charlotte will have any problem with it.”

“That sounds good. We can rent out my place to someone while I live with you. Or maybe we can tear it down and build a modern glass-and-steel monstrosity, that sounds like your sort of thing,” he teased, and I punched him lightly on the arm.

“I was totally on board until that last sentence,” I replied. I knew Charlotte would have no problem with Jason moving in; she was gone half the time, and even though she denied it I knew she very much enjoyed being referred to as Hermione by Jason all the time.

“How about it then? I come live with you?”

“I’d like that,” I said with a smile, leaning in and pressing myself against Jason’s chest. As I listened to his heart beating, I closed my eyes and savored the moment. Things were definitely looking up.

Also by Samantha Silver

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Want to read more of Angela’s adventures? The seventh book in the Willow Bay Witches series is coming in late 2017/early 2018.

Other Willow Bay Witches Mysteries:

The Purr-fect Crime (Willow Bay Witches #1)

Barking up the Wrong Tree (Willow Bay Witches #2)

Just Horsing Around (Willow Bay Witches #3)

Lipstick on a Pig (Willow Bay Witches #4)

A Grizzly Discovery (Willow Bay Witches #5)

Magical Bookshop Mysteries:

Alice in Murderland (Magical Bookshop Mystery #1)

Murder on the Oregon Express (Magical Bookshop Mystery #2)

The Very Killer Caterpillar (Magical Bookshop Mystery #3)

Cassie Coburn Mysteries:

Poison in Paddington (Cassie Coburn Mystery #1)

Bombing in Belgravia (Cassie Coburn Mystery #2)

Whacked in Whitechapel (Cassie Coburn Mystery #3)

About the Author

Samantha Silver lives in Oregon with her long-time boyfriend, her Jack Russell terrier named Kilo, two cats who like to help her type by lying across the keyboard, and the occasional foster. When she’s not playing mom to all these animals, Samantha is either writing the mysteries she loves, volunteering at the local animal shelter, or watching Netflix.

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