CHAPTER 19With a shaking hand, Mara lifted the paper cup to her lips, and she grimaced. The hot chocolate was ice-cold. The entire square was beginning to feel ice-cold. She glanced around and noticed that the surrounding buildings cast long shadows over the square, and the temperature was too uncomfortable to be sitting on bricks. Standing, she decided it was time to get away from all of this soul-reading nonsense. It appeared that others were coming to the same conclusion, at least about the cool fall weather.
Melanie had quickly shaken off the effects of Mara’s reading and walked over to where her husband talked to the last of the gathering. She was trying to get him to wrap things up.
Bohannon hobbled up to Mara and said, “That was quite the show she put on there. Are you sure you’re
