Challenges by Sharon Green

Author:Sharon Green
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Epic, General, Tuneyloon, Fiction
ISBN: 9780380788095
Publisher: Eos
Published: 1998-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Vallant followed Jovvi to her bedchamber, exchanging nods with Rion when the other man made for his own bedchamber. And he couldn’t help noticing how odd it was to associate with Rion at a time like that. No suggestive winks or grins, no self-conscious embarrassment, nothing but an attitude that said nothing at all unusual or different was about to happen. From all it was possible to tell by Rion, Vallant might be on the way to having a pleasant chat with Jovvi.

“What are you thinking about?” Jovvi asked curiously as he closed the door behind himself. “Your face is wearing the strangest expression.”

“I was just thinkin’ that strange is a really good word for some of the things Rion does,” he replied, running a hand through his hair. “But strange good instead of strange bad… And I ought to say that you didn’t do badly yourself. You got Lorand to do exactly as you wanted without touchin’ him even a little with your talent.”

“You seem to be sure I didn’t touch him because you’re sure of me, and I thank you for that,” she said with a dimple-filled smile. “Touching him with my ability wouldn’t have been fair, but I was almost ready to do it anyway if that trick hadn’t worked. And to tell the truth, it wasn’t completely a trick. I’m just about desperate enough to do exactly as I said I would. Because of my big mouth.”

“You couldn’t help it any more than Lorand can help feelin’ as he does,” Vallant said, moving closer to put a hand under her chin. “Neither one of you is to blame, so stop thinkin’ about what was and start thinkin’ about what will be. But not everythin’ that will be.”

The last of his words was something of a mutter, and he turned away to keep his expression from betraying him. With anyone else the effort would have worked, but Jovvi tended to look at people with more than her eyes.

“It’s bothering you that Tamma stayed behind with Lorand,” she stated, just as though he’d said the words first himself. “You aren’t jealous, just … bothered. Is there anything I can do to help?”

“You can move the day along faster so that it’s bedtime tonight,” he replied with a faint snort of self-ridicule. “I need it to be that time so I’ll know if she really will be sleepin’ beside me. Right now I keep expectin’ somethin’ to come along and make it impossible.”

“When I say I know exactly how you feel, please believe I mean it in every sense of the words,” she agreed with a sigh. “I won’t believe that Lorand is back beside me until it actually happens, and waiting for it to happen is killing me. You … don’t really mind that we’ll be lying together, do you? I know you agreed to go along with the necessity, but I also know you still have certain reservations.”

“None of which has anythin’ to do with you,” he assured her at once, turning back to touch her cheek gently.

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