When she came up behind Ward, he was standing in front of Jim Frawley. Ward had swept back the sides of his gray suit jacket to put his hands on his hips.
“What’s the real secret here?” Ward demanded. “Who do I have to bribe to get out?”
The lanky older man just shook his head and turned away.
“There is no secret,” said Melinda.
Ward spun around and grabbed her shoulders. “Then what’s going on? You can’t tell me that I’ve just seen two people I know purely by accident. Who brought them here?”
“I’m not exactly sure,” said Melinda, gently moving his hands away. “But I think that when you became lost, you triggered a convergence of forces within the Emporium.”
“A convergence of forces?” He frowned at her.
“Time is different here. People you see here might have entered a long time ago b
