Chapter 82

"You're sure you don't have any?" Penelope asked, leaning against the doorway. It was the same thing every time they asked anyone. None. All out. Sorry. "Seriously. Like, I'll give you free shit for life if you have any."

"Sorry." Diego shrugged and closed the door in their face.

Josie sighed. "This is going well."

Penelope shot her a look. "You wanted to come with."

"And I'm glad I did." Josie took her girlfriend's hand. There was no one she'd rather be disappointed with.

"You guys find anything or did you give up?"

Josie guiltily took her hand out of Penelope's as Landon stared at them. Penelope? He expected this out of her. Hurt someone and pretend like it has nothing to do with you. That was sort of her M.O. But Josie? This was a new color he hadn't seen on her before. It felt a little like betrayal.

"We're still looking," Josie said. "Landon, I promise. We're going to do everything we can to help Raf."

Landon pressed his mouth into a flat line. It wasn't like he didn't believe Josie but ... no, that was it. He just couldn't believe her. Even when he tried to.

"You can help us, if you want?" Penelope said, raising an eyebrow. She couldn't help it. A little chaos never hurt the mission. In fact, Penelope worked better when all hell was breaking loose. Having Josie's jilted ex along for the ride might make things run a little smoother.

"You're the reason Rafael's like this," Landon stated simply. Penelope noted how that didn't answer her question.

"Actually, if it wasn't for me, your brother would just be dead-dead. Not undead."

"You tried to kill me ."

"I tried to imprison you." Penelope rolled her eyes. She didn't know how Josie had dated him for so long. He really was dramatic. It wasn't even like Penelope did the spell herself. It was Hope - "Wait a minute." Penelope's eyes widened. "That's it."

"What?" Josie's face wrinkled.

"What are we ... oh ." Landon's eyes widened now too.

It was almost infuriating to Josie. " What ."

"Tell me Hope used her blood in that spell," Landon said, leaning towards Penelope, laser-focused on her face.

Penelope's voice was barely a whisper. "Hope used her blood in that spell."

"So let's go get it." Landon practically sprang into the air.

"Let's go get it."

"You're saying we have a way to save Raf?" Josie asked, scurrying after Landon and Penelope.

"If we can find the unused spell Hope did and if we can get her blood out of it, yes."

"Those are two big 'if's." Josie didn't like how many conditions were set against their victory.

"No but see?" Penelope turned to grin at Landon. "It's actually a good thing I tried to magically trap you to steal your girlfriend."

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