Promised in the Mist by Kathryn Kaleigh

Author:Kathryn Kaleigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathryn Kaleigh

CHAPTER 29

VICTORIA

I stood in front of the grandfather clock, staring at the silent dial, the little glass door open.

I cautiously placed a finger on the key.

The key that could though not necessarily would send a person through time.

I had a good memory. I remembered exactly what Mackenzie had told me.

Put the key in the clock. Then in the second between the lightning flash and following thunder, turn the clock back one hour.

It was a formula. I was good at formulas.

I had the clock. I had the key.

What I did not have was the storm.

According to my phone, I had been in the past for three days. That told me that the time travel was not linear. Time spent in the past did not correspond with time in the present.

After changing into blue jeans and a long-sleeve t-shirt, I’d gotten a lot done today. The first thing I had done was to send Tracie a text asking her to please come out to check on Kit Kat in two days unless she heard from me. I’d put out all the food he had, filling up three large bowls and I’d ordered some more to be delivered tomorrow. I’d also filled up three large bowls with water.

I’d called to check on Grandpa. His rehab had gone well and he was scheduled to be released early.

The way I figured it, even if Tracie did not come out, Kit Kat could survive until Grandpa got home.

If something happened to me.

And, it seemed, I was preparing for that possibility.

I called my hospital and cancelled all my appointments until further notice.

I wasn’t leaving here until I seriously got some things figured out.

After closing the glass door on the clock, I went outside and sat in a rocking chair on the veranda.

The swing where I had sat with Grant was gone. And although I looked, I saw no sign of where it had been. The ceiling boards must have replaced. Repainted. Over the last couple hundred years.

As I rocked gently in the chair, I studied the oak trees.

The magnificently large moss-covered oak trees with branches that dipped down so low they nearly touched the ground.

And I sat there watching blue birds searching for food on the overgrown lawn, I made the definitive decision that I had indeed gone back into the past.

There was no other explanation.

I sat there, something I had not done since I was fifteen years old and did nothing except watch the sun set.

After that day, at age fifteen, when I had taken an aimless walk beneath the oak trees and encountered a boy in the mist, I had kept myself busy. That fall I started taking college classes in addition to my regular classes. Then college. Then medical school. Then work.

I kept my head down and never dealt with what I had seen that day.

Cars with loud mufflers passed by on the road. Barges traveled up and down the river. Everything went on as usual.

Life went on as usual.

But my life had changed.

My life would never be the same.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.