No Christmas Like The Present (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Hands and arms kept pulling her back, she didn’t know how many, only that she couldn’t get to the hole in the ice that had just swallowed Fred. Lindsay’s heart slammed against her ribs like a jackhammer. Gradually she realized she was screaming. “Calm down,” said a husky man on her right. He had her arm locked behind her. She focused on him long enough to see he was one of the dozen or so safety attendants she’d seen scattered around the lake. Why was he wasting his time holding her back, when he should be helping Fred? She stopped screaming, not because he said to calm down, but because she was exhausted by the futility of screaming. Her arms ached, and she stopped pulling against the other hands that restrained her. Abruptly she felt limp. She couldn’t take her eyes away from that jagged hole, its edges like huge, carnivorous teeth. How long had it been? Thirty seconds? Three hours? She turned to her red-vested watchdog. He had a broad, ruddy face. “You need to—” He put a hand on her shoulder, as if afraid she might go berserk again, and nodded toward a cluster of other red-vested workers on the ice, about midway between the hole and the crowd of skaters.
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