Amplifier 5: Lemon Ginger tea

I’ve updated the list of teas (and ginger snaps) featured in the Amplifier series (click the previous link), but here is the tea featured in Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5)!

MCD personal note: I drink this tea every morning. And really believe it helps with my stomach/digestion issues.

*Note: this excerpt has been EDITED to avoid possible spoilers, so it won’t match the scene in the book exactly*

Aiden returned with coffee for himself and Christopher, and hot water for me. I looked at him questioningly. He tugged a reusable tea bag out of his pocket and slid it across the table to me.

I shook my head at him. But willing myself to accept the offered distraction, I raised the loose-weaved bag to my nose and inhaled. Lemongrass, ginger, orange peel, and a hint of licorice and black pepper.

“Lemon ginger,” I said, lips twisted into a smile despite my resolve to remain in an utterly pissy mood until [redacted]. Aiden had packed me tea from home and tucked it away in the safe in his study, just so he could pull it out of his pocket at the perfect time.

“One of your favorites in the morning.” The dark-haired sorcerer pinned me with one of his soul-searing looks. “I’d offer you sugar …”

“But I don’t add it to this tea.” I dropped the tea bag into my hot water. My heart was hurting, even as I tried to smile at my dark sorcerer. If I was being completely rational, it was actually the muscles of my chest, and therefore my breathing, that were constricted due to a chemical reaction to Aiden’s sweet gesture. It felt like pain, though. [redacted]

“Why don’t you ever smolder like that in my direction, sorcerer?” Christopher complained teasingly.

Aiden huffed a laugh.

– excerpt from Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5)

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