Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler

Author:Elizabeth Chandler [Chandler, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780743400282
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2000-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

ten

In the morning light last night’s dream had lost its terror but not its power to disturb. I recognized the exaggerations of a nightmare-huge wheels, like gears inside a gigantic clock, waiting to grind me up-it was surreal. Even so, I felt a sense of foreboding. What truth lay behind the images? In the dream I had been drawn into something I had no control over, something I couldn’t stop, and Matt had walked away.

I dressed slowly, then went down to the kitchen. Matt was there, finishing a bowl of cereal.

“How’s Grandmother?” I asked. “Where’s Grandmother?”

Her Bible lay open on the table next to a half-drained cup of coffee.

“In the music room,” he said wearily.

“Why?”

“Don’t you know?” he snapped.

I bit back a sharp response. “Something else has been moved.”

“How did you know it was moved, rather than missing?” he asked, as if trying to trap me in my words.

“Ease up, Matt. When we thought the Bible and clock were missing, it turned out they were moved.”

He rubbed his head. He looked as if he’d barely slept.

“So what was it this time?”

“Paintings. An old painting of the mill was moved from the parlor to the music room and hung above the Chinese chest. The watercolor that was there was left facedown on the floor.”

“When did this happen?”

“You tell me. You were here last night, alone in the house while she was up in bed.”

“Are you accusing me?” I asked.

“I don’t know what I’m doing,” he mumbled.

I intercepted him as he walked toward the refrigerator. “You have as much access to this house as I do, and know the place better. We can point fingers at each other and refuse to trust or we can try-”

The kitchen door opened.

Grandmother gazed at the two of us, her eyes narrowing. Matt and I stepped back from each other.

“I have put the watercolor where it belongs,” she informed us. “I need help with the landscape.”

“I’ll take care of it,” I said. “You’ll be late for school, Matt. Leave me the phone number of Grandmother’s doctor,” I added, when she had exited.

I followed her through the door and down the hall to the front parlor, where I helped her set the large painting back on its hook.

“Is there anything else I can do?” I asked.

“Haven’t you done enough?” Grandmother replied sarcastically.

I stared after her as she left the room. If I didn’t get some answers soon, I was going to be as paranoid as she. I needed information, and there was only one person I knew who might have it.

I arrived at Tea Leaves an hour before work.

“I don’t want my fortune read,” I said to Jamie. “Tell your mother I have some questions about my grandmother’s house and the family. Strange things are happening, and I need her advice.”

A few minutes later the door opened at the top of the stairs, and the old woman beckoned to me. Before I reached the entrance to the second-floor apartment, Mrs. Riley had disappeared around the corner. I

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