Out of the Blue (A Regency Time Travel Romance) by Kasey Michaels

Author:Kasey Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: regency romance novel, historical romance humor, historical romance time travel, historical romance funny, regency romance funny, regency romance time travel, time travel regency romance
Publisher: Kasey Michaels

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Cassandra was able to reach the privacy of her bedchamber before breaking down, throwing herself onto the satin coverlet, and muffling her sobs with one of the pillows. Her hands shook; her stomach felt queasy after holding her emotions in check for so long—putting up a front of courage for Marcus, exhibiting a bravery and an optimism she didn’t feel.

Marcus was in danger. Terrible danger. She hadn’t even thought to doubt him, to ask to see the guidebook for herself in the hope of disproving his statement that he would die on the last day of May unless, together, they found some way to change history.

But they would find that way, she tried to assure herself. Deliberately cutting her tears short, she slipped from the bed and dashed cold water on her face. Why else would she have traveled back in time, if not to save the man she loved—the man she hadn’t known even existed until a little more than a month ago?

After drying her face she put down the towel and wandered over to a window. She pushed back the drapery and looked out over the Square. How she had come to love this place, this mansion, this Square, this hustling, bustling city, this glorious time in history. If it weren’t for the fact that her parents must be beside themselves, wondering where she had disappeared to, she wouldn’t ever want to go back. “Although I’d have to find some way to invent Coca-Cola,” she thought out loud, turning away from the window. “And Twinkies. And Dove bars. Lord, yes, definitely Dove bars.”

She shook her head, wondering why she couldn’t keep her mind on the subject. It certainly was an important enough subject. She would have to take this one step at a time. “One—Marcus is supposed to die the last day of May. Two—Marcus believes I may have been sent to help him avoid that death. Three—I either go back to my time on the last day of May, mission accomplished, leaving a healthy Marcus behind, to live out the rest of his life without me, or, God forbid, Marcus dies and I’m either sent back to my time anyway or I’m left trapped here, with Marcus gone.”

She pressed her hands to her cheeks and they came away wet with her tears. “Four—no wonder I’m still crying!”

Locking the door to the hallway, Cassandra pulled a chair over to the armoire and reached up to feel about for the pack of cigarettes and the lighter she had stolen from Marcus’s study and hidden behind the raised, ornamental wood carving. The time had definitely come for a healthy—or unhealthy—infusion of nicotine to the brain, a sort of jump-start to her thinking processes.

A flick of her lighter and a deep breath sent the smoke into her lungs and the nicotine into her bloodstream. It hit her brain cells in a short, satisfying seven seconds—at least, according to an article she had read a while before, that was the accepted progression of events.

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