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chest behind the counter. She had it wrapped in a soft purple
bag.
“Nothing.” Dani shot Andi an injured look and feigned
innocence. “You should know me better than that. I would
never meddle with a reading.” Right in front of Andi’s
watchful dark eyes, Dani shuffled the deck, stacking it with all
the cards she wanted.
“You’re terrible,” Andi shot back. “Don’t scare her. She
looks young. And naïve. If you give her a bunch of bad cards,
she’s going to take it literally. It’s bad for business if people
run out of here screaming.”
Dani grinned deviously. “Really? Drawing a crowd might
not be the worst thing in the world.”
“You might literally be the worst.”
“I like that you tempered that with might. I’ll take it.”
Andi made a noise in her throat and purposely moved off to
the wooden shelves in the middle of the store with all the
assorted crystals. People were always dropping the wrong
crystals into the wrong baskets. Andi began the painstaking
process of sorting them out. She didn’t tell Dani not to meddle
or give her another lecture again. Dani liked that about Andi.
She wasn’t afraid to speak her mind, but after she did, she
didn’t harp on it.
The back area was covered up with a beaded curtain, so
thick a person had to fight their way through it, but it was
pretty and mysterious looking, and customers liked that. The
music was louder back here since the speakers were closer,
and Dani burned incense in the back too. The room to the right
was also covered with a beaded curtain. She’d hung richly
embroidered and colorful tapestries on the walls, which were
