Midnight Train to Paris (A Paris Time Travel Romance) by Juliette Sobanet

Author:Juliette Sobanet [Sobanet, Juliette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2013-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

EPISODE 5

CHAPTER 13

December 25, 1937

The French Alps

The warmth inside the elegant carriages of the Orient Express is only a distant memory as my abductor yanks me to my feet, thrusts the barrel of the gun into my side, then shoves me deeper into the snowy mountains.

With a heavy sack covering my head, I search for any hint of light in this sea of black that engulfs me, but there is no light. No way to know where this man is taking me. No sign of rescue.

Amid the terror that laces through me like poisonous venom, I remind myself that I don’t want to be rescued—not just yet anyway. I need to find out who is behind this and where we are going, and in addition to saving my own life, I need to try to save Rosie’s and Frances’s lives as well.

That is, if I am even given the chance.

At the moment, the only sounds passing through my ears are my abductor’s barbaric, labored grunts and the crunching of our feet over snow and branches as he pushes me up a steep incline and farther into the freezing abyss.

The rope he has tied around my wrists digs mercilessly into my raw skin, and the bitter wind bites at my fingertips, turning them numb with each passing second. The snow—which must be at least four inches deep at this point—seeps into my old-fashioned shoes, soaking through my thin stockings and turning my toes to ice.

I think of Samuel, of his firm instructions to stay in the sleeping compartment until he knocked, and I wonder if I have once again made a horrific mistake in leaving him.

Will he find me? And what about the others?

What if I never see him again?

The panic rising through my chest threatens to steal all of my strength, all of my resolve. But then I remember Isla. I think of her being forced to make this same trek through the woods, pregnant and terrified. Isla is strong, perhaps stronger than I ever was. But this—being taken from a train in the middle of the night with no hope of ever finding a way back to safety—this would bring anyone to their knees.

As the man at my back gives me a violent shove and the wind whips and howls through the trees around us, suddenly there is no mistaking it—I can feel my twin sister. The boldness of her presence takes root within me, and I know I am getting closer.

It makes absolutely no sense, seeing as how I am stuck in the year 1937 and Isla is seventy-five years in the future, but this feeling of being connected to my twin is as true and alive as the fear coursing through my veins. I imagine her intense violet eyes shining in the unending darkness before me. And I know this is the way.

No matter what Samuel instructed me to do, no matter how carefully he’d constructed our original plan—he was wrong.

After what Isla endured when we were

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