The Ex Hex

The next day, Vivi tries and fails to focus on lecture notes instead of Rhys’s kiss. Amanda Carter, from the witchery department, visits Vivi’s office to talk about the ghost. Vivi is surprised by Amanda’s appearance: She is young and even wears jeans, unlike the other “serious” witches. Amanda says that she has been at Penhaven College for only a few months, and that she has heard that Piper was “obsessed with the history of the town, trying to summon spirits” when she was alive in the 1990s. Amanda says the easy part of rebinding Piper’s ghost is the binding spell itself—the hard part will be finding and capturing her again. She pulls a candle from her bag and asks Vivi how she feels about haunted houses.

Rhys receives a text from Vivi, asking him to meet her at midnight at a specified address. Rhys is cheekily proud of himself for having only “80 percent” filthy thoughts about her. When Rhys arrives at the address, he sees Vivi waiting for him outside a gate, dressed head-to-toe in black. Instead of using a spell to make light, Vivi hands him a flashlight. She tells him they are here for a “quest.