Watch for Me by Moonlight by Kirsty Ferry

Author:Kirsty Ferry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, historical, romance, Hartsford Mysteries
Publisher: Choc Lit
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Alex was nodding at her suggestions and even making the odd agreeable noise, so Elodie thought he was pretty on board with some of the things she was suggesting. Suddenly, she was enthused about her future. And her future seemed to be inextricably linked to Hartsford.

If anything was ever to progress properly with Alex and herself, she’d never want to go anywhere else anyway. But was that what he wanted? She wasn’t sure. Her ideas filled in the time it took for them to reach the Faerie Bridge, and she stood on the sandy bank looking up at the pretty little arch, trying to imagine what it had been like back in 1796 or whenever little Lucy had found the silver penny there.

Elodie found that if she stood quietly and tuned out the present-day intrusions – like the faint hum of traffic, the airplane leaving a cloud of vapour behind it, the distant chatter of the last straggling tourists in the pleasure grounds beyond the bridge – she could almost sense what it had been like then. And in fact, it was surprisingly easy to get a picture of Lucy that day. Her energy was still there, as if she had simply come and gone within the last few minutes.

In her mind’s eye, Elodie saw a little girl run down from the Hall. Her reddish-blonde curls were bouncing around and she was holding up the skirts of a white dress, the ribbons from her red sash flapping out behind her. She pulled up in front of Elodie, and looked around, scouring the ground for a silver penny or a magical horseshoe.

‘I think Lucy stood about … here.’ Elodie moved to one side, feeling as if she was obstructing the little girl. ‘And I think it was early evening.’ Closing her eyes, she tried to attune herself more to the earth and the energy around her. This wasn’t called the Faerie Bridge for nothing – it could be quite an eerie place at twilight. ‘She’d been agitated all day, trying to get away from everyone. And Georgiana lost her temper with her. Georgiana told her if she was going to go looking for trinkets, she should go and stop bothering her. Lucy said she would simply refuse to share any trinkets she found and that was that.’

Elodie opened her eyes and found Alex watching her, faintly amused. ‘She sounds like Cassie was at that age. In fact, she sounds like Cassie still is if she puts her mind to it.’

‘Lucy’s energy is so strong. I can sense her. It’s that sort of place. That sort of evening. What? What is it?’

His eyes kept sliding away across Elodie’s shoulder and focusing on a corner of the bridge. ‘Nothing.’ Suddenly, he began patting his pockets down and swore. ‘Damn it! I’ve lost the penny. I must have dropped it on the way down. For God’s sake!’

He flicked his eyes back along the way they’d come, as if he would see it sparkling on the pathway; and then Elodie remembered the experiences she’d had with that very same coin.

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