Ch 30

Kerrie arrived in Toronto several hours later after a short delay leaving Boston. Kerrie walked to the exit and smiled when she saw Mike leaning against his car.

'You made it, I was getting a bit worried till I saw you were delayed.'

'Yea crapy weather.' Kerrie said giving him a quick kiss.

She turned feeling like someone was watching them but shrugged it off. Much to Corrine's disappointment Kerrie was staying at Mike's place while she was in town for nearly a week. Mike picked up some pizza and the pair had lunch before Mike had to return to work. He left Kerrie with an extra key and she headed over to Vickie's office to surprise Corrine with her favorite cookies from Salem. Kerrie opened the door to Vickie's office and Corrine gave an excited squeal. Vickie looked up from her paper work and gave Kerrie a wave before returning to what she was doing.

'I brought you something, a little thank you for helping Mike surprise me.' Corrine took the box out of her friend's hands and grinned as she grabbed a cookie.

'These are so great. Vickie, do you want a cookie?' Vickie got up and made her way into the office with a slight limp.

'Bad case?' Kerrie asked sitting on the edge of Corrine's desk.

'I sprained my ankle following a cheating husband.'

'Want me to try and fix it?' Kerrie asked grabbing her bag.

'No thanks, I'll live.'

'Want me to go pick up those supplies then?' Corrine asked as Vickie munched on a cookie. Kerrie raised an eyebrow. 'Vickie's letting me do a protection spell for the office.' Kerrie smirked. 'I know they are not my strong point but I can at least try.'

Kerrie went to open her mouth to offer but decided to let Corrine work her magic. The girls went to the New Age store to pick up candles and herbs. The owner talked Kerrie's ear off as Corrine attempted to find everything she wrote down.

'Hey Corrine, did you write the spell yourself?'

'No, found it in a book.'

'Honey, writing it yourself makes it a lot more powerful.' Raven, the owner, said handing Kerrie a list of people on the wait list for her classes.

'Wow, I never would have thought I'd fill them up.' Kerrie said with a grin.

'I guess most of the people spoke to Erin Summers, she had a book signing her before Christmas and she was raving about your skills and how your sure to be the next huge Wiccan author. She compared you to Fiona Horne.'

'That is a huge complement.' Corrine said looking at her basket.

'It sure is, she's amazing. Very nice when I met her last Halloween in Salem.' Kerrie said handing the list back to Raven.

'I'm going to e-mail you the list of people signed up for each class so you can contact them before hand.'

'Awesome, I'm so looking forward to it.' Kerrie and Corrine picked up warm drinks on the way back to the office.

'Kerrie, while you two were out Mike called to let you know he'll be later then expected. Got caught up doing paperwork, he thinks he'll be home around 8 or 9.' Kerrie nodded and looked over the spell Corrine was going to do. Since it was dark Henry appeared at the door. 'Corrine, do you need me here?' Vickie asked slipping on her coat.

'Nope, I'm good.'

'Ok, we're going to go follow that guy again.'

'Good luck.' Henry gave Kerrie a wave from the door before he disappeared with Vickie.

'Are they a couple yet?' Kerrie asked loudly so Henry could here on the steps. Corrine grinned as she heard Henry laugh loudly as they got on the street.

Corrine started the spell as Kerrie sat back watching her friend try to weave a strong spell. Corrine banged her foot on a floor as she messed up the wording a second time then stopped all together as she realized that she messed up the ingredients. She looked to Kerrie for help and luckily Kerrie was following along so she quickly broke the spell before it got out of control. Corrine leaned back against the wall and let out a sigh.

'Why aren't I getting better?' Corrine asked frowning as she cleaned up her things.

'It's all about practice, you need to build a stamina for it.' Corrine started laughing.

'That sounds so raunchy.' The girls went for dinner then said good-bye. Kerrie again felt someone watching her. She turned to see a hooded figure across the street. Kerrie reached in her bag and grabbed her cell phone. She was a block away from Mike's when a car pulled up. Kerrie was relieved to see it was Mike.

'Are you ok?'

'Umm... yea, someone's following me.' Mike put the car in park and got out. The figure across the street took off his hood and Kerrie frowned when she saw it was Jason. 'No fucking way.' Kerrie mumbled as Mike reached her side.