Atlantis Quest by Gloria Craw

Author:Gloria Craw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal;fantasy;Atlantis;forbidden romance;strong heroine;Atlantia;Ally Condie
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Phoebe was already waiting in the lobby. Like me, she’d lined her eyes and used mascara, but her fuzzy brown hair was coming out of the bun she’d forced it into, and her dress hung off her like a sack. Still, it was her unfortunate nose that stole the show.

“Hey,” she said, turning a wave into a bigger gesture than it needed to be.

I couldn’t help but laugh a little. Phoebe was Phoebe. If she was going to wave, she was going to make it count.

I went to her side. “Is this okay?” I asked, looking at down at my dress. “It isn’t formal, but it was the best I could manage on short notice.”

She tipped her head to the side and looked up at me. “Yep. Simple suits you best, I think. That’s quite a rock you’re wearing.”

“It’s a birthday gift.”

“Really. When is your birthday?”

“Tomorrow.”

She bounced up and down a little and looped her arm through mine. “We’ll order cake for breakfast.”

“Um, cake for breakfast on Thanksgiving day. I don’t think it could get better.”

“Agreed,” she said. “Are you ready to meet my family?”

I hoped I was. There were going to be a whole lot of Truss around, but I’d come up with some additional strategies I thought might help with the anger. My backup plan was to run.

“Don’t worry,” she said, giving my arm a squeeze. “They’re all old and boring. I wish you could be here for the dinner we’re having Saturday night. That one is going to go on forever. Without someone to talk to, I might slip into a coma. It’s for family only, though, so I have to tough it out.”

She’d given me more information to pass along.

“Why so many get-togethers?” I asked.

“Financial stuff, mostly. The last CEO was…I’m trying to think how to put it…a mental case. I’m curious how he blew through so much of our money in so short a time. The family is trying to decide what to do about it. We could merge with…some other companies and maybe get a loan that would tide us over for a bit, but that would mean giving up some freedoms.”

The mental case had been Sebastian, and that she had seen him for what he was made me like her even more. I was willing to bet an important organ that the merger she mentioned was a reference to coming back to the clans.

“If was up to me, I’d take the merger,” she said. “It would be better for everyone that way.”

Phoebe got her key card out and swiped it. The elevator door opened and we stepped inside.

“Hold the door, please,” a female voice said.

I stopped it from closing, and a woman whose face I’d seen on dozens of magazines and in several movies bustled in.

“Thanks,” she said, a little breathless.

Starstruck, all I could manage was a nod. Phoebe wasn’t fazed at all. “I saw your last movie,” she said.

The woman smiled graciously and said, “Thank you for saying so.”

“I didn’t say I liked it,” Phoebe replied.

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