The Greening: a novel of romantic suspense...with a touch of magic (The Green Man Series Book 1) by Brubaker Sharon

Author:Brubaker, Sharon [Brubaker, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2012-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

In May, 1963 Dorothy Maclean received an insight from within as she meditated: The forces of nature are something to be felt into, to be reached out to. One of the jobs for you as my free child is to sense the Nature forces such as the wind, to perceive its essence and purpose for me, and to be positive and harmonize with that essence.

Monday morning passed swiftly for Sylvia. She hummed away happily at her desk completing work, laughing out loud when she received a one word email from Gwen stating ‘details!’ Sylvia emailed her back the message ‘later’ and received yet another email stating ‘Call you tonight!’ Lunch seemed to come quickly and she took the plates of leftovers to the cafeteria where Carol was waiting.

“Wait a minute,” Carol said when Sylvia sat down at the table. “What happened to you this weekend?” she asked slyly.

“What do you mean?” Sylvia returned, blushing a little.

“You can’t hide it from me,” Carol prodded. “C’mon, tell!

“Well,” Sylvia said slowly, savoring the suspense of keeping from Carol a moment longer, “I had a date with Owen yesterday,” she told her quietly.

“Great!” Carol crowed. “He seems like a great guy.”

“I think he is,” Sylvia answered beginning to dig into her lunch. “But, keep it quiet, okay? I don’t think the ice princess would appreciate it.”

Carol made a face, a rude gesture and the comment, “Give this to ice princess Anna.”

They ate for a few minutes with Carol oohing and ahhing over Marian’s hors d'oeuvres.

“Can you tell her I’m up for adoption?” she asked Sylvia. “My Mom wouldn’t mind as long as I took her the some of the leftovers. Hell, she could adopt my mom too!”

Carol was very close to her Mom, but Sylvia had understood quite clearly that she was not much of a cook. Carol and her Mom had a bunch of local restaurants that they frequented for meals. Home cooking was not something Carol had grown up with.

“Owen is really lucky to be living there,” Carol said. “Does she cook like this every night?”

Sylvia started to laugh, and then started to answer Carol when she paused. Carol had stopped eating for a moment and glanced around the crowded cafeteria.

“Speaking of the good man,” Carol said, “Here he comes.”

Owen was coming into the cafeteria and waved to them from across the room. He was smiling until someone put a hand on his shoulder.

“Uh, oh,” Carol said again, sotto voce, “Here comes trouble.”

Sylvia turned to look and saw Anna coming in after Owen. She walked swiftly up to him, put her hand on his shoulder to make him pause and began talking to him. Owen’s face went from happy and smiling to grim. He turned to walk back out of the cafeteria with Anna and did not look happy.

“I wonder what’s going on?” Sylvia asked out loud.

“Who knows,” Carol said. “Poor guy.”

Sylvia finished her lunch and went back to the office. She emailed Owen a brief message “Everything okay?” It wasn’t until after 4pm that she received a terse answer ‘No.

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