Echoes of Abandon by Quinn Paula

Author:Quinn, Paula
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2021-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Michael looked around in the darkness for Mr. Simeon. Charlotte didn’t seem to mind, but Michael knew he sounded like a full-blown, certifiable nut. He knew it. He was sure she knew it, too. He couldn’t prove anything he told her about the future. He didn’t know why he told her in the first place. He feared she would look at him differently now. He didn’t blame her if she did. He wouldn’t have believed him if he were her. And yet, her father, whom she didn’t get along with, believed him on the first telling. Old John, too.

Mr. Simeon could prove Michael wasn’t out of his mind. Where was he? Michael tried to remember everything Simeon had told him. Michael had definitely traveled back in time. He believed it. It was all real. There might be a way to get home. All he had to do was talk about the future enough to maybe threaten the steady course of things. They’d come back for him like they came back for Miss Lancaster. He could tell the judge things. He could tell a whole room of judges things. Did he want to? Was there a reason he got the brooch and came back? What did it all mean? This had to do with King Arthur, but what did Michael have to do with any of it? Was he just unfortunate to get the brooch and find his true love?

Gazing down at her asleep in his lap, his heart melted against his ribs. He would keep her from picking any more pockets if he had to follow her everywhere she went. She’d told him he would put her in a cell. He would make sure he never did.

He wished they had brought some whiskey, but he hadn’t even thought of it until now She made him feel lightheaded enough. She made him forget everything, including his duties. He should have questioned their prisoner today. He most likely would have found out much, but he allowed Charlotte to distract him and the bastard got away. Now, here he was sitting atop a hill waiting for the sun to rise, as if it were some huge event. One that Charlotte couldn’t stay awake for.

He should be out hunting the perp. Once again, he allowed Charlotte to distract him from his duties.

He was about to wake her and take her home when he was distracted by a wash of golden light. He turned to witness the top arch of the sun dazzle the earth beneath it. Light burst forth in blinding, gold, orange, and crimson shafts. A new day was being born. New chances, new beginnings, new mercies.

He had a gun and he had a bullet, but he hadn’t thought about using them on himself. He drank tonight but he would have preferred not to if he knew he’d see Clements. He didn’t want to forget his friends. He just wanted peace from them. Maybe here, in seventeen twenty-four he would find that peace.

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