Undine by Penni Russon

Author:Penni Russon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061975479
Publisher: HarperCollins

Prospero Marine

Bay of Angels

Tasmania

It didn’t seem to Undine like an actual address. She couldn’t imagine, for example, that she could write it on a postcard and expect the card to arrive anywhere real.

She would like to find the passage again, the one on the scroll of paper from the cigar case. How had it started? Something, something, thy father lies…

“Whatever,” she told herself impatiently. “What about a bloody road map?”

She stood at the top of the stairs, listening for Lou. All was quiet. She quickly located the book of road maps downstairs. Bay of Angels. It was southeast of Hobart, a tiny, remote-looking bay. There was one small road in from the peninsula road, Beach Road, represented by brown dots, indicating it was a dirt road.

Undine felt a surge of excitement. As she stared at the map, another thought occurred to her. She found the phone book and with shaking hands looked up Marine. He was there, the only resident amongst businesses like Marine Construction & Towing Services Pty. Ltd. and Marine Insurance.

As she dialed the number her heartbeat was so loud in her ears that she thought he might hear it. The phone rang and rang until she was sure it would go unanswered. Her heart nearly broke through her ribcage when someone picked up.

She stood there, holding the receiver. She said nothing; nor did the person who had picked up on the other end. She had the feeling that the person on the other end of the phone was listening to her silence, as carefully as he might listen to her speak, and she waited for him to say something. And then he did.

“Undine,” said a perfectly ordinary—if slightly shaky—male voice on the other end of the phone. “Undine. It’s time to come home.”

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