One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland

Author:Lynn Kurland
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, General, Time travel
ISBN: 9780515147919
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-04-27T00:48:42+00:00

Three hours and the return to consciousness of Cinderella later, he found what his brother had told him to seek. He wasn’t quite sure how he was to go about sending Pippa and her sister home with his guardsmen and his squire as four gaping witnesses to the fact, so he sent his lads back the way they’d come to wait for him. The excuse of the sisters’ kin being too cautious to want to encounter men-at-arms had seemed a decent lie, though he wasn’t any happier about that one than he was any of the others he’d told in the past fortnight.

He waited until he was alone with Pippa and Cinderella, then drew his knife and cut first the gag from Cinderella’s mouth, then the cloth Nicholas’s lads had apparently used to bind her wrists and ankles together.

Cinderella sat up and looked around her, dazed. “Where are we?”

“Going home,” Pippa said shortly. “Behave while I go change—”

“No need,” Montgomery said quickly. He suspected it would sound daft if he told her the thought of her having something of his in the Future was comforting, so he pressed on without hesitation. “Your gown is in the wagon. Just carry it along with you.”

Pippa looked at him gravely, then nodded and walked over to the wagon to fetch her clothes. She shook the gown out, then slipped her hands into the pockets one by one.

The blood drained from her face. He would have stepped forward to aid her, but she was searching the wagon so frantically, he didn’t dare get in her way. He glanced at Cinderella in time to see her watching her sister with a rather lucid expression on her face, all things considered. It wasn’t a very pleasant expression, which made him wonder what mischief she was combining. He kept Cinderella in his sights on the off chance she decided to bolt suddenly, then walked over to stand next to Pippa as she leaned back against the wagon.

“What is it?” he asked quietly.

“I had something in the pocket of my dress,” she said faintly.

Montgomery looked again at Cinderella to find her smirking, as if she’d done something she found vastly amusing. Pippa pushed away from the wagon and strode over to her.

“What did you do with it?” she demanded.

Cinderella flipped her hair back over her shoulder. “I’m just sure I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Montgomery listened to them converse—in Future English, no less—in tones that became less dulcet with every exchange.

“Cindi, where’s my flash drive!”

“You hid my pills,” Cinderella snapped, “so I hid your little backup stick.”

“I didn’t hide your pills,” Pippa said through gritted teeth,

“you swallowed them all. Now, where did you put my drive?”

“Maybe you’d better go back and look for it in the castle.”

Pippa froze. “Did you leave it there?”

“I guess you’ll just have to go check and see, won’t you?”

Montgomery watched Pippa turn and walk away. Cinderella strolled past him to sit on the end of the wagon as if she had nothing more pressing to do than be at her leisure.

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