The Shadows Trilogy (Box Set: Edge of Shadows, Shadows Deep, Veiled Shadows) by Cege Smith

Author:Cege Smith [Smith, Cege]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Feeling a small amount of trepidation, Ellie made her way up to her room. On the third floor she stopped just short of the door to the right. A gaily drawn-up sign still hung from a tiny piece of tape that said “Ellie’s room.” She had barely used the room in the short time that she had watched the mansion at Lillian’s request; it seemed like a lifetime ago. From what David had told her, some awful things happened inside her room that last night. But with the trio from the car accident occupying the remaining three bedrooms on the second floor, she didn’t have much choice. Her glance wandered across the hall to the set of double doors that marked the master suite. She had bad memories of that room as well.

Taking a deep breath, Ellie turned the doorknob and the door swung open. She didn’t know what she had expected, but the room looked exactly the same as she remembered it. It was a large room but it was still dominated by an elaborate four-poster bed, and there was a small make-up table against the right wall and a reading nook complete with comfy chair and a small reading lamp on a stand on the left. Across the wall that faced what she still thought of as the front of the house, there was a large sitting bench under the windows. Ellie knew that in her reality, on the Other Side, those windows framed a magnificent view of Lake of the Isles. But this wasn’t Minnesota anymore. The large windows gave way to nothing but blackness, which made Ellie uneasy. She wondered if there were invisible eyes out there staring at her and she shivered.

There was nothing in the room that indicated a woman had given birth there, or that people had died there. Ellie was starting to wonder if that whole part of her life had ever really existed at all. With no remnants to remind her, it was nothing but an empty room. Ellie decided that she needed to forget that piece of the past for the time being. It wouldn’t help her here to dwell on things she couldn’t change. Determined now, she crossed the room and went into the bathroom.

It was only at seeing her face in the mirror that Ellie discovered that her situation was taking a much larger toll on her than just a mental one. Ellie was thirty-three, but the pale, haunted woman in the mirror looked older. Her long brown hair fell almost to her waist now; it had been just midway down her back in her last memory. She touched her face. Just like with David’s, she saw lines there that hadn’t been there before, and her cheekbones protruded as if she hadn’t eaten in weeks. Her whole frame was bordering on skeletal. She looked ill.

Approaching the sink cautiously, Ellie’s mind whirled. How long had she been in the waypoint? She poked at her memories, but the moment

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