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He chuckles. “Yeah, all of it.”
Cash hands me a paper bag with stars and moons on it.
“Oh, how cute! I’m keeping this one.” I say as I look over the details of the design on the bag.
“I know about your dirty secret,” he murmurs.
All I can think about is the sex toys in my bedside table back home. I turn wide eyes to him. “You do, do you?”
He nods and grins. “Yeah, you’re a paper bag hoarder. When we move into our house, we could use all your paper bags that you’ve collected for flooring.”
“Why do you think I collect them? I saw it on some home show where they scrunch them up, lay them flat then put a clear coat on them...” I stop and tilt my head to the side. “Did you just say when we move into our house?”
Just then Hector came back with a cloth in his hands rubbing something. “This is an earth healing stone. It’s powers have the ability to release unwanted entities, remove attachments, aura cleansing and clearing and soothing. It also has effects on four of the main seven chakras, the heart, the throat, the third eye and the crown. A very powerful stone indeed!” He pulls the cloth back, blows on it, then holds it out to me.
“Oh... it’s gorgeous.” When he said he was going to put it in something I thought he meant a box. But no, he put it in a beautiful, filigreed ring setting.
“That was your grandmother’s ring. The stone fell out years ago and I put it in that bowl that you picked it out of.”
I raise my brows and look at him. “You mean... this is her actual ring?”
He nods. “It is.”
“That’s impossible,” Cash says. “Larimar wasn’t discovered until the 70’s!”
Hector just stared at him. Finally, he said, “By a human. We are talking about Lilith here the most powerful witch to ever exist my dear boy! I saw that ring on her finger myself. It’s hers alright.”
I was rooting for Hector; he was talking a good talk until the last part of it. I mean, how could a man from five hundred to a thousand years ago, whichever the case may be, standing in front of us right now and not look a day over ninety? It was impossible.
I smile and say, “Doesn’t matter. I love it and think it’s gorgeous. Thank you for taking such good care of it, Hector.” I reach into my purse and pull out my wallet. “How much do I owe you?”
“Your money is no good here.” He bowed his head at me.
“Of course it is!” I start pulling out twenty-dollar bills one after the other and lay them on the counter. “You’ll need to exchange them for British pounds, but there’s enough here, I’m sure.” I frown, counting over three hundred dollars then pull out another forty bucks. “Here’s more because our dollar is worth shit compared to pounds.”
Cash picks up the money and hands it back to me. “What Hector meant is they don’t use money, it’s all on the barter system.”
“...Oh. Well, I don’t have anything to barter?”
Hector puts his hand on mine. “Yes, you do my dear, just go save the world. Now—” he pulls a book out from under the counter— “It’s time that you two got married...”
