The Future Falls: Book Three of the Enchantment Emporium by Huff Tanya

Author:Huff, Tanya [Huff, Tanya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Given the time of year and the temperatures after dark, they held the family meeting in the house they’d inherited from Jonathon Samuel Gale or, more specifically, from Stanley Kalynchuk, the sorcerer Graham had been working for when he met Allie. Though they were one and the same, the house had been in Kalynchuk’s name and therefore the will Roland had drawn up—heavily charmed by the aunties—had also been in Kalynchuk’s name.

“I don’t care what he was calling himself,” Auntie Bea had sniffed. “You’re a lawyer, Roland Edward Gale. Fix it.”

There’d been discussion about selling the property and using the money to buy and demolish two or three smaller houses closer to the park, but four years later they still weren’t positive they’d removed every trace of Kalynchuk’s sorcery. Nor were they sure how to safely dispose of most of the collected artifacts in the vault, particularly those they couldn’t identify.

“This one looks like a gilded pookah penis,” Allie muttered, lifting the lumpy golden cylinder off the shelf.

“It really doesn’t, dear.” Auntie Carmen patted her on the arm as she passed.

It was the only property they owned large enough for the whole family, although the location meant that using it post ritual required designated drivers. They’d hung onto it mostly because of the pool. No one wanted to lose the pool, particularly not when Jack could keep the water warm enough for even a Calgary winter just by half submerging. During the later months of her first pregnancy, Allie’d spent a lot of time floating tucked up against Jack’s side.

A quick glance around the room found Jack next to Cameron. They got along well, probably because Jack had never manifested horn and challenged for position—although Allie supposed had never manifested horn or challenged for position was more accurate as Jack’s manifestation leaned more toward teeth and claws than the Gale norm. Charlie stood by the breakfast bar, fingertips drumming out the percussion to music only she could hear. She wasn’t looking at Jack, he wasn’t looking at her, they weren’t acknowledging the other’s presence in any way, and yet Allie barely needed to squint to see the connection between them. Second circle was all about connection. Charlie kept forgetting that.

Once we work out how to prevent an asteroid impact, I’ll work on them. She couldn’t erase thirteen years, but there had to be something she could do to ease their way.

Every Gale in Calgary, fifteen and older, had gathered in the kitchen or the huge family room attached. Pies already in the oven filled the space with the comforting scent of pastry and baking apples. Across the family room, at least one auntie always close at hand, David not only maintained a human seeming but was drinking a beer. The children, and they’d finally begun to have a comfortable number of them, were downstairs, charging around the basement under the supervision of the younger teens. Jennifer, Judith and Dave’s oldest, had rolled her eyes with all the aplomb of a

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