The Ex Hex

Vivi and Rhys stash the Eurydice Candle in the storage room at Something Wicked. Vivi jokingly thanks Rhys for never trying to have sex with her in a haunted house when they were in school, like Hainsley and Sara. Rhys admits he would have tried to sleep with Vivi anywhere, because he was mad about her. Instead of making a joke to “puncture this moment like a balloon,” Vivi admits she was mad about him too. Rhys confesses that his feelings for her have not changed: “I am mad about you, Vivienne Jones…I don’t think it ever went away” (207). Vivi steps toward him, closing the distance between them, and kisses him. They move to the storeroom’s couch, and Rhys undresses Vivi. As Vivi has an orgasm, she thinks to herself that things between her and Rhys will be different this time.

In the morning, Vivi shows Elaine and Gwyn the Eurydice Candle. Elaine remarks that it does not seem like a strategy the college witches would use, but based on Amanda’s demeanor and appearance, Vivi thinks the department might be modernizing. Vivi tells Elaine what Piper’s ghost said, and they theorize that Piper meant Rhys’s ancestor Gryffud, not Rhys himself.