Celtic Dragons by Dee Bridgnorth

Author:Dee Bridgnorth [Bridgnorth, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Autumn

“You don’t understand,” Autumn told the woman who was running their bed and breakfast, desperately trying to remain calm in a situation that felt anything but. “He’s been missing for twenty-four hours. That’s not right. He’s a tourist. He’s here with us. I’m telling you that something has happened to him.”

The woman patted her arm lightly as they sat together at the breakfast table in the public area of the bread and breakfast. “Do not worry. He will come back soon.”

Autumn’s knuckles whitened as she gripped the table. “No! Something is wrong. I need to know how I can get him help. I need to call the police. I need to talk to someone who speaks English very, very well. My friend has been missing for twenty-four hours, and he wouldn’t have just gone away.”

Sympathetically, the woman patted her again. “There are pretty, pretty women in the island. Very pretty.”

“He’s not having an affair!” Autumn shouted, slamming her hand against the table as she stood up. “He’s hurt. Okay? He’s hurt. And I’m here by myself, and our plane leaves in the morning, and I don’t know where my friend is. Do you understand me?”

“Shh, shh,” the woman urged, gesturing toward Anna and Rachel, sitting at the other end of the table, wide-eyed and afraid. “You upset them.”

Autumn gritted her teeth together, the total helplessness of her situation almost more than she could take. “You don’t understand,” she told the woman again. “I need help.”

“More sheets?”

“Fuck!” Autumn shouted, dropping her head on the table.

“Mommy,” Anna said, her voice tremulous. “Mommy, I’m scared.”

Guilt nagged at Autumn and she forced herself to get her emotions under control for the sake of the two girls staring fearfully at her. Picking her head up, she stood and walked over to her daughters, crouching down in front of them. “I’m sorry, baby,” she said to Anna, stroking the girl’s hair, lighter than her own. “I didn’t mean to scare you, and I shouldn’t say words like that, should I?”

Anna shook her head, looking down.

“I like it when you say bad words,” Rachel offered. “It reminds me of Grandpa.”

Despite herself, Autumn smiled. “Yeah, I can see why. Listen, I need you two to listen carefully, okay?”

The girls both nodded, Anna looking up at her again. “Eamon isn’t here right now, and I don’t know where he is. He hasn’t been here in a while, has he?”

“He’s lost,” Rachel said, sighing. “Maybe he fell in the lake.”

“I don’t think so,” Autumn said, patting Rachel’s arm. Though, the truth was, he could have. He could be anywhere. She hadn’t seen him since they’d parted ways and she had gone to the hotel with the girls and he had gone in search of Nova. Since that time, she had heard voices and been attacked by a wolf that, for all intents and purposes, could have been in her imagination—except for the scrapes remaining on her neck—and Eamon hadn’t answered a single call or text.

For twenty-four hours, he had been silent, and she knew that something was terribly wrong.

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