Cadence (Langston Brothers Series) by Blue Melissa Lynne

Author:Blue, Melissa Lynne [Blue, Melissa Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

The Heavenly Mistress swept swiftly down the Thames away from London on the morning tide. As per the plan Curtis took on an entirely new crew, retaining only old Jack, before setting sail and had been busily readying the ship and crew since before dawn. Standing alone toward the bow Cadence watched the waves lash at the sides of the ship and turned her face into the cool spray. The day was cold and the sun shed rays of deceptive brightness across the ship and water. But today she could not enjoy the beauty of the sea. Leaving London signaled the end to the blissful respite she’d found with Curtis. Her husband had forgone a planned stopover in Belfast and one in France, and charted a course straight for Charleston Harbor and a yet unknown fate.

* * *

Securing a tack line Curtis turned to see the solitary figure of his wife moving slowly across the deck. Cadence had become increasingly withdrawn in the last few days and he was at a loss for words or comfort. He hadn’t the heart to tell her what snippets of news he’d gained from the docks, but, really how could they know what awaited in Charleston?

“Aren’t you cold?” he asked, approaching from behind her. A slight smile touched her lips as he wrapped his arms around her and placed a kiss on the side her neck.

“Just a little,” she snuggled her back against his chest as he set his chin on top of her head.

“What are you thinking?” Though he didn’t really need to ask.

Turning to look up at him she implored breathlessly, “What are we going to do? I wish I knew what to expect when we get home, but—”

Spinning her in his arms, Curtis clutched her tightly against him. No words of comfort came to mind and he would not offer false reassurances. God, but he hoped he was doing the right thing, maybe he should set her up somewhere far from Charleston.

No.

Curtis knew it was not an option. Eventually life would catch up with her—with them and more than that he knew what it was to run.

He was a long while drifting to sleep that night as the depth of Cadence’s despair and worry seeped into him. Old memories assailed him, the faces of his past, of his own running…

The unflinching green eyes of Allan West stared up at him. “Go to hell.” The words were a curse, spoken as a curse, and resonated eerily through the thick woods with the echo of the gunshot. Go to hell… go to hell…

Somehow Curtis knew he was dreaming, but as the play of his mind darkened and shifted he could not drag himself from the dregs of sleep.

Go to hell…

“This is hell,” Curtis answered the haunting voice ever rumbling in the hollow of his mind.

The cannon roared with such intensity he could scarcely discern the voice of his commanding officer. “Sergeant Langston, we’ve… to … hill!”

Though words were swallowed by the monster of

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