Spelling Mistake (The Kitchen Witch Book 4) Read Free

security man said they’re all corroded and he has to order them from Melbourne. It’ll take weeks!” She sighed deeply.
    She kept making small talk throughout my treatment, but I barely listened to her. I was worried about the entity. I now knew that it could take human form. Was it a shapeshifter? I shuddered.
    And what was it going to do next?
     
     

Chapter 3
     
    I sat in my car, despite Helen’s stern warning not to sit it any longer than necessary, and called Ruprecht. To my dismay, it went to voicemail. I left a message to call me back, and briefly told him that I had summoned an entity. I then drove to my cupcake store as fast as I could. Thyme would know what to do.
    I got out of the car and stood up. I was expecting my back to spasm, but it definitely had improved. The adhesive heat pack stuck onto my lower back was bringing relief, although the pungent smell of herbs wasn’t entirely pleasant.
    I hadn’t seen the entity since his appearance in the treatment room, but I knew that he would do something else. Hopefully, Thyme and the others would have experience in this type of thing and would able to despatch him.
    There was a customer in the shop, so I wasn’t able to tell Thyme what had happened. Thyme took the customer’s money, and then turned to me. “Hey boss, you’re late!”
    “Something happened,” I said, wiggling my eyebrows and fixing her with a look in the hope she’d catch onto the fact that it was a supernatural something. “And I hurt my back and had to go to the physical therapist. And before that, something important happened…”
    Thyme interrupted me. “I’m running late for an appointment, so can you wrap these cupcakes for the customer?” She shot the customer a winning smile and then made to walk away.
    “But Thyme, something’s happened.”
    “You can tell me all about it when I get back.” With that, she took her purse and hurried out the door.
    I shrugged, but there was nothing I could do. The entity would have to wait. I only hoped that it didn’t do something horrid before the others could send it back to where it came from.
    As soon as the customer left, I tried to call Ruprecht again, but once more it went to voicemail. I was about to call Camino and Mint and ask them to go over to Glinda’s , Ruprecht’s store, to tell him in person, but all at once three customers came into the shop.
    To my dismay, two of them were Craig and the obnoxious Kayleen. I had dated Craig briefly before I found out that he was also dating the mail lady, Kayleen, and goodness knows who else. He had turned out to be quite a jerk.
    Kayleen and I had never liked each other. She was an awful snoop. In fact, I had caught her reading my mail on more than one occasion. She had taken even more of a dislike to me when she found out that Craig and I had dated.
    Craig politely ordered a dozen cherry coconut cupcakes, while Kayleen stood behind him and scowled at me. “Have your cakes poisoned anyone lately, Amelia?” she said with a nasal chuckle.
    I forced a fake laugh, annoyed that she said it while another customer was standing right behind them. I recognized him as Scott Plank, the Town Planner. He was a particularly unpleasant man who was full of his own self-importance, and had become a regular customer after the Council Chambers had moved to a building just down the road from my store.
    Scott cleared his throat and shuffled, obviously indicating that I should serve him before Craig and Kayleen, even though they had been there first. Today, his face was bright red and he was scowling. “Can I sample that lemon cheesecake mini cupcake!” he said, in a tone that was more of a demand than a request.
    I took Craig’s money, and then handed Scott the closest lemon cheesecake mini cupcake. Scott proceeded to answer his phone, and then yelled loudly at the unfortunate person on the other end of it.
    I had just finished wrapping Craig’s order, when Scott spat out the cupcake. “It’s