Hot Rock by Annie Seaton

Author:Annie Seaton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: musician hero, rock star, covet, musician, romance, time slip, indulgence, paranormal romance, time travel
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Davy? You’re back.” The woman opened the door wide and smiled until she looked at him. “What’s wrong?”

“Hello, Alice.” David’s breath hitched. He’d run the whole way across the field to the cottages, giving the stones a wide berth. “I’ve lost someone.”

Alice McLaren wiped her hands on a bright floral apron and held her arms out to him. “I’m surprised to see you. I thought you’d be immersed in the festival.”

David reached over and hugged her. Alice had grown her hair since he’d last seen her and she kept hold of his hands and looked at him. “Still looking good, Davy.” She tipped her head to the side. “You don’t change?”

“I don’t understand it myself.” All he knew was, he stayed the same age whichever time he was in. “You’ve had no unexpected visitors this morning?”

“No. I haven’t seen anyone. What’s happened?”

David ran his fingers through his hair as he stood at the door. This was doing his head in.

“I’ve lost someone… a friend…a woman. It’s a long story and if I don’t find her, she won’t be able to find her way back.” He took another deep breath.

“Stay there, I’ll get you a cool drink. You look like you need it.”

When Alice returned, he took the tumbler of water gratefully. Closing his eyes, he drank deeply to soothe his parched throat. “Thanks.”

“I’m pleased to hear you have another friend. Have you been back to Wales to see Emma’s family?”

Jesus, has everyone read that article that Holly showed me? They’d made a big fuss about Emma’s family too.

“No, I haven’t been up to Wales since…since then. I spend most of my time in the twenty-first century when I’m not on tour with the band.

“Just the twenty-first century?” Alice stared at him, a frown marring her face. “You haven’t been exploring other times, have you? I warned you about that.”

“No, I listened to you.” David took another gulp. “Alice, apart from loving my music and performing, I hate the whole seventies scene. The drugs, the—pardon me, free sex—the groupies. The whole lack of privacy thing. And then the whole thing with Emma’s death…” He stared out the window. “You know what a mess I was last year and I’ll be forever grateful to you for helping me get through it. It suits me very well to live in the twenty-first century. I get the best of both times without being a part of that ghastly scene, and I don’t want to put that privacy in jeopardy.”

The morning light shimmered in the distance and a quiver of unease shot through him.

“I arrived in 2008, and I stayed there. The only time I come back to the seventies is to tour occasionally and to record with the band. That does my head in enough.”

“David, you must—“

He held up his hand as he interrupted her “Sorry to be rude, but I have to get back to the festival and find Megan. If she discovers what’s happened to her, she’ll freak out. And I don’t want her to find out she’s gone back in time.

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