1975: The Seven Book 5 by Sarah M. Cradit

Author:Sarah M. Cradit [Cradit, Sarah M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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A Lovely Secret

Colleen watched the sun slowly rise over Edinburgh, as the light made its slow approach over the room, cutting a bright swash across the patchwork comforter. She rested her left hand in the thick band of sunlight and turned it to and fro, admiring the heartiness of her dried heather band.

Beside her, Noah slept.

In the end is our beginning, he’d said, and oh, how much had changed in the span of only a few days, set to the magic of Skye.

* * *

After that afternoon at the fairy pool, they’d spent the following days of their lovers’ respite traveling the windy roads of Skye, hiking the jagged cliffs of Storr, enjoying porridge at a small inn in Uig, and traversing the Fairy Glen, which resonated with even more magic than the pools. Colleen had fallen in love with the sloping, hilly glen, and the fairy circles, insisting, to Noah’s amusement, on leaving an offering for the mysterious beings.

“You believe in this, do you, my goddess of science?”

“I believe in everything, even those things science can’t explain.”

Noah kissed her and left his own offering, to please her.

They’d navigated the island like intrepid explorers, never tiring of discovery, or each other. Their evenings they spent wrapped in embrace, sharing every corner of their souls, except the darkest.

What will become of us when we return to the world? she had thought then, and still, now, didn’t have the answer.

On New Year’s Eve, as their trip neared its end, she’d beseeched Noah to take her back to the magical glen. She had one last wish of the fairies.

As she’d traced her path into the circle of stones—first forward, then, after making her offering and speaking her wish—retracing them backward through the spiral, Noah discovered his own bit of magic: a patch of purple heather, ...

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