As the Last Petal Falls by Jessica Woodard

Author:Jessica Woodard [Woodard, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: historical romance
Amazon: B0092GI5CI
Published: 2012-08-24T21:00:00+00:00

Tom gestured to Vivienne, and she helped him struggle off his pallet. As the other men dashed frantically from house to house, he made directly for one small wooden structure, tucked beneath two ancient pines. The door had been broken in, and was twisting free on the single intact hinge. Vivi held it open while he shuffled into the house.

“Lara! Lara!”

It was clear the house was deserted, but Vivienne made no move to stop the wounded man as he slowly stumbled from room to room, calling out in a voice thick with unshed tears. Her eyes took in the table, set with four bowls, and the hearth, where low coals smoldered under a pot of burned, blackened porridge. To one side of the still-warm stones was a spoon, coated with cold, congealed oats, lying where it had been dropped. A half-loaded pistol lay among the breakfast dishes, and three shiny bullets had rolled to rest in the cracks on the table’s surface. In the far room, Tom’s voice was growing more and more panicked as he called for his lost sister.

“Lara!”

He broke off. Vivi made herself move, to step through that horrible tableau and find Tom. He was sitting on one tiny bed, holding a small, wooden sword in his hands. Another, slightly smaller, lay broken on the floor, with a hideous, red-brown stain on its tip.

“Cady told me once,” the poor man whispered, “that a knight always defends against evil, no matter how outnumbered she is.” Two fat tears rolled down his cheeks, and he stared in horror at the shattered sword on the ground.

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