Threaded Through Time, Book Two by Sarah Ettritch

Author:Sarah Ettritch [Ettritch, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 2011, Time Travel, Historical Fiction
Amazon: B0068PCVZS
Publisher: Norn Publishing
Published: 2011-11-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Pam leaned forward in her chair to clink glasses with Jasper, Oliver, and Hortense, then sipped her wine and watched the couples sweeping around the dance floor. This ball reminded her of the Halloween Ball she’d attended with Jasper in Toronto. It wasn’t as lavish, but the crowd was younger and more energetic, and she actually knew people.

Oliver had driven them to the ball. Now that Jasper had closed the deal on the property and knew how much he could spend, he was eager to buy a car. With a home waiting for them, their wedding booked, and private drives on the horizon, they were both in the mood to celebrate. The invitation to attend the annual Sailor’s Ball couldn’t have come at a better time.

She frowned over the rim of her glass when Elliot and Doris joined them. When it came to Doris, Elliot was all manners and charm tonight, but he always behaved impeccably when they were out in public. In addition to family, he apparently felt comfortable berating her in front of Pam and Jasper, but only showed his true colours behind closed doors. Pam worried for Doris. When she lived with him, would he constantly run her down?

“Shall we dance?” Jasper asked.

She nodded, wanting to recapture the magic of the ball in Toronto and pretend men like Elliot didn’t exist. On the dance floor, she reached for Jasper with both arms, then laughed along with him when he caught one of her hands. “Habit,” she said gaily, captivated by his rugged handsomeness, the colourful evening gowns dotting the dance floor, the music, and the ambiance. As she followed Jasper’s steps, determined to appear as if she’d danced this way for years, her mind wandered back to the Toronto ball—and Robin and Margaret. “Remember Margaret sneaking off to the guest house so we could attend the ball together?” she murmured, knowing full well that wasn’t why Margaret had faked a bad stomach. If she hadn’t fallen in love with Robin, she probably wouldn’t have tolerated Pam and Jasper’s growing affection. Would Pam be here, in Jasper’s arms, if Margaret hadn’t been a closet lesbian? Pam sometimes wondered if her desire to be with Jasper and Margaret’s desire to be with Robin had somehow influenced the rhyme’s effect. Robin definitely belonged in 2010, which could explain why she and Margaret had gone forward, while Pam had remained behind.

Jasper leaned in and whispered, “I still can’t believe Margaret is in the future. She must miss her family and friends.”

And him? “I think about them in the present tense, too.” She couldn’t grasp that they didn’t exist; she sometimes wondered what they were doing and thought of them as alive, but elsewhere, as if the world consisted of time periods rather than continents. She had to remind herself that Robin hadn’t been born, and where was Margaret? In some type of alternate dimension until October, 2010, when she’d suddenly materialize in the exercise room as if she’d beamed down

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