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Eric poured another sample and handed it to Damon. “I’ll admit I considered spelling some of my beers the way your sister and you do your baked goods, but I’m afraid of overindulgence.”
Kay nodded with a concerned look on her face. “That was one of our concerns when we first started. Our spells are mild, but we figured out a way to add a stopgap of sorts.” She frowned. “I’m not sure how you’d do that with alcohol.”
“Well, if you’d consider sharing the family secret, I’d be interested in playing with the spell.” He swept his arm out. “And all the beer you could ever want.”
Kay chuckled. “So, that’s why you’re charming me. I thought you were trying to get a rise out of Damon.”
Eric laughed. “I was doing that, too.”
Damon took that as his cue to get Kay away from his brother. He set his empty sample glass down and took her hand. “Let’s get out of here before he tries to torture your spells out of you.”
After they got a glass of the Love Potion beer for Kay and an IPA for Damon, the two moved to a table in the corner near the shelf full of games. “Sorry about my brother. He can be a little pushy when he wants something.”
“He was fine.” She lifted up her beer and looked coyly over the top of the glass. “He’s not the first man who wanted something from me.”
“If you mean me corralling you into my show, I’d like to remind you I had nothing to do with getting you deputized. That was all Tucker.”
“How convenient for you that now Tucker is out of your way.” She licked a bit of foam off her lip. “Now you have me all to yourself.”
“Kay Knight, are you flirting with me?”
Her cheeks flushed pink as she shrugged, and it was so damn adorable it made Damon want to grab her for a kiss. She got up from her chair to check out the games on the shelves. “What was your favorite game as a kid?” she asked.
“I don’t remember. We didn’t play many.” He grinned at her. “We were too busy getting in trouble.”
“I believe it,” she joked. “We didn’t play a lot of board games in my house. My family likes cards.”
“Gin Rummy?”
Kay grabbed a deck of cards from the shelf. “You’re on.”
She dealt, and the cards were slick in Damon’s fingers as he organized his hand. “You Knight girls must have gotten into trouble, too. I can’t imagine a house full of witches wouldn’t.”
“Oh, we did.” Kay chuckled. “Amelia was usually the one who got us into situations that were trouble. She likes to run the show, and would convince us to do a spell, leaving out parts of the plan that she thought might keep us from participating.” A secretive smile teased at her lips before she discarded.
It made Damon want to ask her what she was thinking, but he figured she’d share if she wanted to. He said, “Sounds like Will. I think he believed we weren’t capable of comprehending it all.”
“Amelia didn’t like to be criticized, and I think she figured the less we understood, the easier it would be for her to get what she was after. There was one time she came up with a spell to clean our rooms, and—” Kay chuckled. “I guess she realized it wasn’t perfected because she thought we should try it on the room I shared with Corinne first.”
Damon grimaced as he imagined what might have happened.
“The dusting went okay, but when Amelia commanded the vacuum to do its thing, something went wrong. The machine crawled up the walls and over furniture, sucking up anything in its path.” She paused to laugh. “The thing managed to devour an entire comforter before my mother heard us screaming and came to our rescue. She saved the lamp just in time.”
Damon loved the sound of Kay’s laugh and the way her whole face lit up as she told her story. He wanted to hear more. “What about you? Tell me about the trouble you caused.”
“Hmm. You know, I can’t think of anything too bad. I was usually the one who was trying to get usoutof trouble.” She flashed a sheepish look and then swept up multiple discards from the table. As she laid down a run of five cards she said, “I’m not sure if you noticed, but I like to follow the rules.”
“I did notice that about you.” And the temptation to break a few with her was stronger because of it. “But you are also able to look past them for the greater good. Like you did with Nancy.”
She sighed. “Yeah. I have some guilt over that. I don’t like that we deceived her, but I get why it was necessary.”
“I know you do, and I promise on the next ghost hunting mission we’ll be upfront about what’s going on.”
“Thanks. Fingers crossed we won’t have any. Although…”
“What?”
“Nancy is best friends with Jeannie at the hardware store on the island. Have you ever been there?”
