Light and Sweet: Sacred Hearts Coven by Felicia Starr Read Free Book Online Page A

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    “Hey , Esmeralda, can you keep an eye on my stuff? I need to use the little girl’s room.” When she turned around Leo was looking at a display of coffee mugs and packaged cookies.
    Esmeralda watched the whole transaction, smiling up to the heavens knowing that it would be a great day for her spell. She knew that the spell would only help Lilly and Leo to open their hearts to the possibility of love. If the chemistry wer en’t already there then it wouldn’t do anything.
    Esmeralda was pleased at the size of the crowd she had in her little cafe for a Monday. It was late morning and the rush had usually simmered out by then.
    She looked over and saw the front door open again. A tall young guy maybe in his early thirties walked in. She was less than impressed with his ripped jeans and concert tee. She didn’t understand why anyone would want to dress like that as an adult. To make matters worse he had on a dirty old pair of high-top canvas sneakers. She thought the least he could have done was comb his hair.
    She finished up making Lilly and Leo’s drinks. Before sh e brought them over to the pickup counter she wanted to make sure she put away the enchanted syrup. She turned around to put the syrup in the cabinet behind her when she remembered she needed to brew a fresh pot of coffee for Leo’s dad.
    “Leo, give me another minute, I am brewing a fresh pot of dark roast coffee for your dad.”
    “Ok, thanks.” He waved at her and proceeded over to the newspaper stand and began to flip through the pages of a used paper.
    Esmeralda listened to Jan take the order from the underdressed young man.
    “Hey, you’re making salted caramel coffees today?”
    “Sure are, would you like to try a latte?” Jan offered.
    “Nah, I’m not into the fancy latte thing. Actually I usually just take my coffee like I take my women…light and sweet.”
    Esmeralda rolled her eyes and was glad she wasn’t waiting on him.
    “Ok, is that what you would like? A coffee, light and sweet, honey?” Jan asked him.
    “Ya know what? I’m gonna get a little crazy today just because you look like you could convince me to start drinking lattes.”
    Jan’s cheeks turned bright pink. “One salted caramel latte coming right up. What is your name, hun?”
    “Leon.” Jan wrote it on a paper to-go cup and walked over to make him his drink.
    “Esmeralda are you done here?” Jan asked as she packed the pod with fresh espresso grinds.
    “Yeah, thanks I am just about to pour a black coffee to go with that order.” Esmeralda had the large to-go cup in her hand.
    Jan finished up Leon’s latte. “I’m gonna put your drinks up ok?”
    “Perfect, I am right behind you with this.” Esmeralda put the lid on the coffee.
    “Here you go, hun.” Jan put the three coffees up on the counter. “Have a great day, you’ll have to come back and let me know if I converted you.”
    Leon grabbed his to-go cup and gave her a wink just before he turned to walk toward the exit, “You bet. See you soon.”
    Lilly came walking back to the pickup corner, “Are one of these mine?”
    “Yes, I wrote your name on it.” Esmeralda told her as she put up the black coffee. “Leo, you’re all set.”
    “Esmeralda, we are out of printer paper in the register,” Jan called out.
    Leo walked over and picked up the large coffee. Lilly picked up the latte and went to hand it to him. “Do they call you Leo for short?”
    “Huh? No, why?” Leo said.
    “Oh , because your coffee says Leon.”
    Esmeralda dropped the box of register tape when she heard what Lilly said. She knew she wrote Leo on the cup.
    Leo just shrugged his shoulders and took the cup. “See you some time.”
    “Ok, bye ,” Lilly replied and looked over at Esmeralda. “Are you ok?”
    “Yeah, it just slipped out of my hands.” Esmeralda didn’t know what to think or do. She considered putting a call into her High Priestess Seraphina , but was not sure how she was going to explain