20. Blue Smoke Danger

Troy watched as similar coloured steam appeared from the pot of rice and the gravy. Eve turned to Prominence who pretended not to have seen anything out of the ordinary.

The look on his wife’s face could have made a rock run for shelter. The calm which radiated from her was intensely frightening. Troy watched as his wife told the maid to pack her things and go.

It was now dark outside, and Troy wondered what his wife was up to and tried to convince her to let the girl go tomorrow morning.

Eve refused to listen and demanded that the girl confess what else she had been doing and for how long. The catalogue of attempts at witchcraft and concoctions that Prominence had used and placed around the house alarmed him.

What frightened him more was that his wife hadn’t told him about finding occult artefacts in their home and how she’d disposed of them.