On Halloween, we joined Veronica downtown. Tourists packed the area, of course, and I wondered what the ghostly coven thought about it all. When I asked Veronica, she shrugged.
“They’re probably used to it. I would imagine they enjoy it to some degree, as long as we also acknowledge their suffering and how they were punished for being different.”
Jared squeezed my hand. “At least you’re no longer punishing yourself for that.”
“True.” I tried not to think about how after the weekend, he would have to return to Boston to meet Kurt and Merlin to start training, although they’d told him they would work with his schedule so he could continue to run his company without Cindy and to come up and see me. I had agreed to help Veronica with the store through the holiday season, and I had finally f
