Awakening Anne (The White Crow Series Book 1) by Kalynn Applewhite

Author:Kalynn Applewhite [Applewhite, Kalynn & Applewhite, Kalynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

9

Chapter 9

Maggie carried out the tray of bite size cakes into the crowded dining room with a proud smile. As she set them in the center of the table, there was a murmur of excitement as many eager hands reached out to snatch one of the tasty morsels.

“Maggie, this is all too lovely,” Camila said, looking around the apartment’s sitting room which was now buried beneath Maggie’s many accommodations for the party.

Ribbons had been hung from the ceiling and in the doorways. Trays of foods, savory and sweet covered every surface. A mountain of gifts brought by the many admiring guests lay stacked neatly on the corner table, and filling every available crevice were bouquets of lilac and other dusty purple flowers which left a sweet aroma in the air. The small room had been filled to its absolute brim with extravagance, nearly to the point of making it seem cluttered. Many of the guests had taken to sitting or standing in the dining room instead.

“I tried to restrain him, Camila, but Jonathan insisted on throwing the party of the year,” Maggie said, playfully.

As the dreadful December weather carried on, it had become clear that there would be no leaving the city that year, especially not to Camila’s family home in the country. So, Jonathan had nobly taken up the mantle of throwing Camila’s birthday party. Maggie had volunteered for the cause gladly, seeing as her brother was hopeless when it came to parties. Not to mention she had desperately needed something to occupy her attention.

“What?” Jonathan said, seeming affronted. “I shall have you know that this circus was not my doing.”

“It wasn’t?” Camila asked.

“Well, it was my idea for the flowers,” he admitted proudly.

Camila placed an endearing hand on his arm. The two of them had certainly become close over the past two months. Maggie was pleased for them, at least somewhere inside herself she was. Camila was a great friend and more than she had ever hoped for in a prospective sister-in-law. Certainly, she would make Jonathan happy if matters came to that. Yet as Maggie’s mind began to drift from the conversation about differing species of flora, she felt nothing especially at all, only the aching hollowness which found her whenever she was alone, or her mind became unfocused.

And seated there, in her own sitting room, surrounded by at least twenty people, including her brother for Heaven’s sake, she felt the touch of the void. A frigid whispering on her skin, cold and calling. Maggie’s body seized, going rigid in protest. She pushed the sensation away as her heart raced against the creeping chill. Maggie tucked a loose curl behind her ear self consciously, hoping no one had sensed the sudden fear which had swept over her.

This sensation had come over her often over the past weeks, the feeling as if she were standing in the very shadow of death. Ever since that night at Mr. Blackbourne’s home, when she had truly learned the danger of these forces with which she had meddled.

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