Cadenbury Town Does Halloween (Cadenbury Town #7)

Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3

A dhan comes into the shop early afternoon and takes me to Penn’s for lunch.

“How’s my favourite person?” Penn asks with a laugh, pulling me into a hug.

I laugh and hug him back. “Should I not be your second favourite person?”

“Third at least,” Adhan puts in. “It should be Sage, then me, then Ernest.”

“Sorry Ad, Ernest has jumped to number two.”

Adhan laughs. “Fine, I’ll take the third spot,” he says as Penn leads us to our table.

I say our table because we always sit at this one. It’s a nice romantic seat next to each other table.

“So why have I jumped up to your favourite person?” I ask.

“Sage was chatting to Clay Dempsey yesterday,” Penn started.

“And Sage found out we’re putting on a play next year,” I conclude.

“Exactly. He’s so excited to be able to sing on stage again.”

“Sage has the most amazing voice,” Adhan tells me. “If he hadn’t been a chef, he would probably be lighting up the West End.”

“I can’t wait to hear him. The play is going to be amazing. But before that, we have Halloween to sort out.”

“Ah yes, that starts today. I’ve heard you’re changing it up this year,” Penn says to Adhan.

“I am indeed. We’ve moved it to the old Morris farm. We have a funfair coming and other fun things to prepare.”

“It will be epic,” I put in.

“I can’t wait to see it all. Now, here are your menus. The dish of the day is pork chop parcels with roasted veg. The pie of the day is chicken and mushroom, and the soup of the day is French Onion. What can I get you to drink?”

“Just an orange juice for me please, Penn,” I say.

“The same for me, thanks.”

“Thank you, gentlemen, I’ll bring your drinks over momentarily,” and with that Penn walks off to put our drinks order in.

I lean into Adhan’s side and smile. “This is nice. Thank you for bringing me here.”

Adhan drops a kiss on my head. “I wanted you to myself.”

I turn to him and laugh. “So you brought me to a restaurant? We could have got something from the bakers and taken it home.”

“We could have, sweetheart, but then we would have spent the rest of the day in bed.”

“And that’s a bad thing?”

Adhan laughs. “No, sweetheart, but I wanted you to come out to the farm with me after lunch and work your magic on the house.”

“See we could have had lunch in bed and then after an afternoon of lovemaking we could have gone to the farm, or you know, you could have asked one of the other true witches to help while we had fun, just you and me, alone, in our room, with no one around, naked and in bed.”

I see Adhan’s blue eyes darken with passion and he pulls me into a kiss.

Not being stupid I happily kiss him back, and then remember we’re in the restaurant and others are around. I temper the kiss and slowly pull back.

I smile as we get a round of applause.

“Aww, look, babe! We got tens,” I say, grinning at everyone.

“You were also about to get doused in water to cool you both down, but I didn’t want to ruin the restaurant,” Penn says, laughing at us. He’s standing by our table carrying a tray with our drinks and a basket of bread. He places everything on the table for us.

“Well, thank you for restraining yourself,” Adhan says to him.

I look around the restaurant. “You guys are still the best,” I turn back to Penn. “Thanks for the drinks.”

“Have you two even looked at the menu?” he asks with a smile.

“There’s a menu?” I reply.

Adhan laughs. “We’ll both have the pork parcels. Thanks, Penn.”

“I’d already put that order in for the both of you.”

I laugh again. “It’s as if you know us.”

“Who’d have thought?” Penn replies, turning as the restaurant door opens and Kean and Titus walk in.

They grin as they see us.

“Looks like we had the same idea,” Titus says.

“Do you want to join us, or is this a date lunch?” I offer.

“Nope, this is a we just finished work and thought we’d eat here before we went to the farm to help out lunch,” Kean explains. “But we can see you’re on a date table, so we’ll leave you two alone.”

Adhan laughs. “Join us. I’m sure Penn won’t mind setting two more places.”

“I don’t know why I let you all in here,” Penn fake grumps as he adds two place settings. Kean helps him move two chairs over. “What can I get you two to drink?” he asks as he hands them menus.

“Just a lemonade for me, please,” Tie says.

“I’ll have a lemonade and lime please,” Kean tells him.

Penn gives the special spiel and then walks off to place their drinks order.

“Temp texted me earlier,” Tie says, grinning at me.

“I’m surprised Pa didn’t just add everything to the family chat,” I reply.

“What happened?” Adhan asks.

I go on to explain about Ma and what happened last night. All of us are laughing, especially when I pull out my phone and share the photos and video.

Halfway through Penn brought their drinks and took their order, leaving us to carry on talking.

“We need to have a flying clothes room,” Kean said.

“We do,” I agree. “Oh before I forget, look, I found the cutest little costume for Connie,” I scroll through my tabs and open the picture I found. It is the cutest little wolf outfit. “Look,” I turn the phone around to show them.

“Aww, so sweet. You might have to see if they do it in Nora’s size as well,” Kean says.

“She’d love that,” I reply, clicking through and looking. “They do have one her size,” I buy them both. “Done, all bought.”

“Sal and Jude will love that little outfit,” Adhan says.

Kean looks at me and shakes his head, a look of disappointment on his face.

“What?” I ask with caution.

“I can’t believe your mum made clothes and furniture fly, and you never have.”

Adhan and Titus burst out laughing.

“I know. I wish I had done that, but it’s good that Ma is practicing.” I so, so wish I had done that!