Lethbridge-Stewart: The Laughing Gnome: Fear of the Web. A Doctor Who spin-off novel. by Alyson Leeds

Author:Alyson Leeds [Leeds, Alyson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Candy Jar Books
Published: 2019-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

She did not look back until she had walked a good few paces, at which point she risked a glance through the restaurant’s window. She could just about see Malachi, tucked away in the back corner behind the other diners. He was still sitting there, staring desolately at where she had left the ring on the table.

An overwhelming sense of shame welled up in her chest, and she turned away. She’d had no right; this wasn’t her life. But what else could she have done? It wasn’t as if she had asked to come back in this body – she hadn’t asked for anything at all! Like it or not she had a task to complete, and Malachi had become a liability. She simply didn’t have the luxury of taking his feelings into account.

Anne pulled the collar of her coat close about her face, and quickly crossed the road. Besides, it would be for Malachi’s own good in the long run; if she had not disappointed him now, she would only have done so later. And who was to say that he and Rachel would not get back together again after she’d left?

It was all a dreadful mistake.

Anne shivered, Malachi’s words from Julius’ funeral coming back to haunt her. She quickened her pace, footsteps echoing briskly in the cool night air as the heels of her shoes clicked against the paving slabs.

Rachel and Malachi’s engagement had broken off around the time of the London Event; this much was an established fact. Had her actions tonight altered history? Maybe so, maybe not; there was no definite way of telling from here. Perhaps, then, history had already changed to accommodate her presence? Perhaps she had always been the reason that Malachi had never married?

And could that mean that she had already failed?

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