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Alfred and I laugh.

“I know what you mean,” I reply.

“Jodie made Clarence cake restrict Ernest,” Alfred says with a laugh.

“Ma’s mean,” I mutter.

“Poor Ernest,” Ebby says laughing as he walks off to join his family.

CHAPTER 34

I’m serving a customer as Adhan walks into the bookshop.

I hand the bag of books over to the customer and they take them saying, “Thanks Ernest, have a good rest of the day.”

“You too,” I reply.

The customer turns and sees Adhan. “Hello, Mayor. My family and I are loving the haunted farm.”

“I’m glad. It’s certainly been interesting,” Adhan replies.

“That it has,” the customer says with a laugh, leaving the shop.

Adhan walks over to the counter and bends over, kissing me.

I pull back and let out a yelp as I’m hit on the side of my face with water. I turn and glare at Alfred, the annoying puppy, as he laughs his fool head off, holding my squirt bottle.

“Really?” I say, wiping the side of my face.

“Whoops,” Alfred says, looking at the bottle. “I have no idea how that got into my hand.”

Adhan wipes the side of his face, looking at his son. “Really son?”

“It must have been magic. It just suddenly appeared in my hand,” he protests, trying not to laugh.

“And it magically squirted us?” I ask.

“Umm yes,” he says, looking down at the bottle and back up, pretending to look surprised.

“Clarence,” I yell out. “Alfred is cake-restricted for the rest of the week.”

“Wait what?” Alfred asks, in horror.

“Noted young’un,” Clarence calls out in reply.

“But it’s Monday,” he complains.

Pa comes walking over to us. “And why is Alfred cake-restricted?”

“Because he squirted us with the water bottle,” Adhan says before I can.

Pa looked at Alfred. “Why would you do that?”

“Apparently, magic made him do it,” I tell Pa.

“It really did. They were kissing and suddenly the bottle was in my hand and water was coming out the nozzle and hit them,” Alfred explains.

How Alfred can keep a straight face as he says this is impressive.