The Looking Glass by Jessica Arnold EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jessica Arnold
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She could taste the blue, the water on her lips. Something solid loomed
before her and she knew it was too late to turn around. There was a
sound as she barreled into it, a sound that seemed too gentle for the
impact. It should have been loud—earsplitting, skull-shattering—but in
fact it was almost silent, dulled by the water. A whisper of a noise
followed by a soundless darkness.
She blinked and the water slipped away from her like a dream.
Alice was lying on the couch in the hotel foyer. She lay there for a
moment, opening and closing her eyes, alarmed by how her heart was
pounding. Her throat was tight and she realized that she was choking
back a scream. Was it a nightmare? Had she fallen asleep? She moved
and every inch of her ached. As she tried to stand, her legs started
shaking and she nearly fell over.
Moaning, she sank back into the soft leather, pressing a hand to her
throbbing head.
She stared at the ceiling, trying to remember exactly how she had
gotten there, but her memories were fuzzy. The more she sifted through
them, the more tangled and sticky they became, as if she were digging
through mounds of cotton candy. The hotel, of course, she recognized.
How long had she been here? A week? Yes, they’d come to Maine on
Saturday for a last-minute vacation before school started up again. Her
twelve-year-old brother, Jeremy, had chosen the destination.
A haunted hotel.
She had to admit, the location had intrigued even her. True, she
wasn’t obsessed with ghost stories the way Jeremy was, but Maine was
pretty and quiet and a completely different world for someone who had
spent her entire life on the West Coast.
A yell broke the silence. “Somebody call an ambulance!”
Alice jumped to her feet, ignoring the piercing pain in her head.
Years of practice had taught her to discern the many subtle levels of her
mother’s panic, but she had never heard this much raw fear in her voice.
“Mom?” she said, hurrying into the library just off the foyer. “Mom!”
“Is she all right?”
Alice recognized the hotel manager’s voice. He, too, sounded
worried. She ran back into the other room and stopped, looking around in
confusion. There was no one in sight. The hotel was completely booked;
it shouldn’t be this empty.
“Alice!”
Her mom again.
“Alice, can you hear me? Come on, Alice. Come on!”
Even for her mother, whose overreactions were the stuff of family
legend, this seemed to be going a bit far. Alice had just fallen asleep in
the lobby. It wasn’t as if she’d died or something.
She walked back into the dining room, frustrated. If she didn’t find
her mom soon, she’d be hearing about this for months.
“Where is she?” she heard the hotel manager ask. It sounded like he
was in the foyer now.
“Outside, by the pool.”
“Oh my God!”
“What happened?”
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