The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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THE SUN WAS COLD, the teakettle refused to boil, and the wretched scent of
old memories burned from the logs as Sadie Revelare built up the fire. Even
the grandfather clock, which never paid attention to time, warbled out ten
sad magpie notes.
A sign I must not miss.
Sadie threw the tedious old clock a withering look and kicked it at the
base. It swung its gold pendulum as though wagging its finger in warning.
Irritated, but not one to mess with the sign, she crossed herself with a
cinnamon stick and then crushed it under her boot heel on the front porch.
Back inside, the house echoed its silence like a gentle reproach. Gigi
had already left for the day. Seth had been gone nearly a year. Not that she
was counting the days. She wouldn’t give her brother that satisfaction. She
glanced at the toothbrush holder as she washed her face. One lone
toothbrush.
Long ago, she let herself dream of her own house, a pair of
toothbrushes, maybe even water spots on the mirror from a child brushing
their teeth too close.
But her curse made that impossible, and she’d given up on romance too
long ago for it to make a difference now. Some people needed flowers and
pretty words. Sadie needed truth and kept promises. She finished getting
ready, and on her way out the door, with coffee in hand, the clock chimed
again.
“I took care of it!” she shouted back.
But on the short drive to work she had to swerve twice: once to avoid a
snake in the road and another time to dodge the crow that nearly swooped
into her windshield. She shivered. Portents of change and death,
respectively. Still. She shrugged them off. Business didn’t stop for bad
omens. Actually, it thrived on them.
The winding canyon road was in its full autumnal force as Sadie rolled
down the window, the chilly air kissing her face. She inhaled the smell of
leaves and mossy rocks and the promise of a sharp noon wind. But there
was something else there too. River silt.
“No, no, no.” Her foot pushed harder against the pedal as she rounded
the last sharp bend faster than she should, and Two Hands Bridge came into
view.
Despite the lack of rain, it was flooded. Only a little. But enough. Sure
as sunshine daisies, it was the third bad omen of the morning. There was no
more ignoring it.
Even townsfolk who didn’t believe in magic knew what a flooding
meant: someone was about to return.
She slowed down, her tires sluicing through the muddy water, her
knuckles white against the steering wheel.
Cindy McGillicuddy, a neighbor from a few doors over, slowed down
as she approached in her four-by-four truck, the back weighed down with a
dozen bales of hay for the horses she kept. She rolled down her window and
then pointed at the bridge.
“River flooded,” Cindy said knowingly. She was a no-nonsense kind of
woman, her six-foot frame built with solid farmwork muscle. And even she
was worried about the flooding.
“I know.” Sadie sighed.
“Maybe your brother is coming back, huh?” Cindy said hopefully.
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