Temperance by Ella Frank

Author:Ella Frank [Frank, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Romance
Amazon: B00S470C2M
Barnesnoble: B00S470C2M
Goodreads: 23423370
Publisher: Ella Frank
Published: 2015-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Wilmington, NC

Two days earlier…

Maeve looked at the clock hanging on her dining room wall and watched as the second hand made its way around the face.

Time.

That was a new concept she’d had to grow accustomed to when she and Rhiannon had awoken in this new world. It was something that she found passed by excruciatingly slowly when one was keeping track of it.

Her girls were late. Really late. As in five hours after the time they’d agreed to meet for dinner. That put it close to one in the morning, which was completely unlike them.

Rhiannon was standing by the window quietly looking out at the running river. She hadn’t said anything since they’d made the last call to Naeve and gotten her voicemail. All four of her girls weren’t answering their phones, and none had called to say that they wouldn’t be by. That could only mean one thing—nothing good.

For the last several hours, she’d been racking her brain, trying to come up with logical explanations as to where they were and why they hadn’t called, but nothing was making any sense.

The roast she’d cooked was now cold on the center of the table, and the wax of the candles had dripped down and collected at the base of her favorite silver holders. The flickering flame started to blur, and her vision became clouded as an intense sense of panic welled inside her.

She hadn’t felt this way since the day she’d had to leave Arcania, and as the feeling rose inside her chest, she placed a hand between her breasts as if she could squash it back down.

“What about the police?”

The soft whisper delivered by Rhiannon barely made it through her agitation as she gazed across at her sister.

“The police?”

“Yes. That’s who we need to speak to. I see it all the time on the TV at the café.”

Maeve thought about the little place they both worked in and frowned. “But what if they just decided to go out? You know, party for their twenty-fifth year.”

Rhiannon let out a sigh and shrugged. “I don’t know, Maeve. This just isn’t like them. Not to call.” She paused and then smiled. “I mean, Fiona would call for sure. That girl has a backup plan for everything.”

“Well, there’s nothing wrong with that.”

“True, but I’m just remembering how Siobhan called her anal retentive just the other day.”

Maeve smiled then, thinking of each of her girls. “I don’t know what to do. Do I wait until morning or…”

“Let’s go with or for now. If they were in trouble, don’t you think one of them would’ve called? You can make them feel terrible in the morning, and I’ll be more than happy to help.”

A slight chill swept over her body, and Maeve rubbed her arms up and down, trying to find some sort of comfort. She could wait until the morning. No big deal, right?

But as she looked at the clock again and saw that time had barely moved at all, she wondered if the wait itself would kill her.

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