A Husband in Time by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Seven

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Cody picked himself up off the floor and brushed at the knees of his jeans. Then he froze and stared down at his hands. The box! Where was the box? Realizing he must have dropped it, he quickly scanned the room, the floor around and behind him. But there was no sign of it there, and the blinding white hole he'd come through had vanished.

"Oh, no," he muttered. He quickly checked his pockets and found the bottle of pills he'd brought along. Thank goodness he hadn't dropped those, too. He breathed a sigh of relief and, for the first time, examined his surroundings.

His bedroom… or it had been up until a minute ago. Now it was different. And the most noticeable difference was the sickly little boy all tucked into the big bed over there, and the three strangers who stood around him, all of them slowly turning shocked glances on Cody.

Cody cleared his throat, took a single backward step, smiled and said, "Uh…hi." A couple of oil lamps threw off about enough light to see by, and not a drop more. But there was enough to know that those three were none too pleased to see him there.

Moving as one, they came toward him, surrounding him, three stunned faces blinking down at him. A fat man with gray whiskers, and a taller, skinny man with black ones. Both wore old-fashioned suits and ties. The lady was older, with silvery hair and a crinkly face. She took one look at him and fell backward. Both of the men grabbed hold of her, one fanning her face until she blinked and got herself upright again.

"Don't drop her, Eli. For the love of God, you're dropping her!"

"I'm not dropping her! I have her. For God's sake, get the chair, Wilhelm.''

Eli? Wilhelm? Cody stared at the men, too shocked to move. Holy cow, he was standing in the same room with Eli Waterson and Wilhelm Bausch!

One pulled a chair over, tucked it under the lady and then fanned her face. After a moment, her eyes fluttered open, and she smiled weakly at the two men, then gaped at Cody. "Land sakes, child! You nearly frightened me out of my life! What was that flash of light? And where on God's earth did you come from?"

"Who are you, boy? How did you get in here?" The younger of the two mustached men leaned forward as he spoke. "Where is Mr. Bolton?"

Cody figured he'd better not say too much. They'd think he was nuts, and God only knew what they did with crazy little boys in the 1890s. So he just shrugged. "I dunno."

"None of that matters, Eli," said the older man. "We really must get this child off the premises in all haste."

"No way," Cody said, crossing his arms. "I came to see Ben, and I'm not leavin' till I do." He craned his neck to see past them, to the boy in the bed. The light wasn't that bright, but Cody didn't think the kid looked very good.

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