The Asharton Manor Mysteries Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4) by Celina Grace

Author:Celina Grace [Grace, Celina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-13T23:00:00+00:00

One of the worst things about Janey going missing was how long it took me to notice that she’d gone. We’d never kept tabs on each other and so the next morning I got up and stumbled down to the kitchen, just as I always did, in search of Cody and coffee; not necessarily in that order. I was later getting up than normal, a consequence of my disturbed night and I still felt fogged by the Valium. There was no one else in the kitchen. I made coffee and stood, looking about me, while the kettle boiled. It was not something that I usually noticed but this morning, the general squalor depressed me. I would do some cleaning later, I decided, and was cheered by the thought of actually having something to do for a change.

I wandered out onto the terrace and looked at the view. For once, it wasn’t sunny – the sky sagged like a pile of dirty towels, greyish and damp-looking. I could see a thin thread of smoke rising from somewhere in the pine forest. I frowned. A forest fire? It didn’t seem big enough for that. More like the smoke from a bonfire. Was someone camping in the woods? I couldn’t see Blue being very happy about that. It was then I recalled his voice, the look on his face yesterday when Janey had talked about cutting off her hair. For a second, he’d almost looked like a different person. I made a mental note to have a word with Janey, to see if she was okay and that he hadn’t – well – hadn’t taken anything out on her.

I could hear music coming from the studio and made my way over there. Blue and Wade were trading chords on their guitars. I was surprised to see Merian sat over by the window – I hadn’t heard her car. Perhaps she’d come down late last night. She looked ill, white-faced and drawn, behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.

Neither Cody nor Janey were in the room. I asked after Cody and was told he was painting. I thought I’d better not disturb him but decided to go and find Janey instead. I made my way up to Blue’s bedroom, working on the assumption that she was still in bed.

She wasn’t there. I stood in the doorway, looking at the tumbled sheets and gradually became aware of something, a curious stripped emptiness in the room. It took me a moment to put my finger on what exactly was missing. The dresses and skirts that had littered the floor had gone. The beads that Janey had hung from the side of the huge mirror that faced the bed had disappeared. Puzzled, I looked around the room again. All of Janey’s things seemed to have disappeared. What the hell?

I looked in my room – well, Race’s room really. I wasn’t really expecting her to be there, but you never knew… I looked in Wade’s room, and Cody’s massive room.

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