Dark Enchantment by Karen Harbaugh

Author:Karen Harbaugh [Harbaugh, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 0440334675
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Published: 2003-12-02T23:00:00+00:00

Catherine allowed the silence between them to lengthen until she was forced to contemplate her own thoughts. Clearly honor kept Jack from spiriting her away from her home, that and her wish that she recover her memory and learn once again what it was to be Catherine de la Fer of the noble de la Fer family. She would ignore the first and pursue him shamelessly, for she did not entirely see much practicality in his honor. But the closer she came to her home, the more her curiosity and the need to know herself, her own true self, strengthened. She had been the creature of the alley forever, it seemed, and then something that felt neither human nor animal, but something in between. And now . . . now she had known Jack’s gentle, heated touch, and she felt she had gone beyond that in-between state into . . . something very close to human. All that she needed now was to remember.

She looked at the road in front of them with eagerness. Not long, now, before they came to Rouen, and Jack had told her that her home was not far from that. The road seemed a milky stream in front of them, as if some heavenly milkmaid had spilled her bucket on the way to her home. She grinned at the image that came to her mind—Jack was right that food still occupied her thoughts more than it should.

The road seemed to widen a little ahead of them, and she breathed a sigh of relief, for it meant that a town was sure to be near, and then they could rest. This night’s journey had not been as hard or as long as their first, thank God. But she was chilled to the bone and wished for a good soft bed, and—Catherine could feel a determined smile form on her lips—she would make sure Jack would be in the bed with her. She had been successful the night before; she felt she could be just as successful this time, too. She would seize what she could of their time together—if she had not learned anything else from her time in the alley, she had learned that if she did not seize what she could, she would have nothing at all.

She looked forward, then, to the end of this part of their journey, and urged her horse forward a little faster on the road.

The silence between them relaxed and became companionable, partly from fatigue, partly because . . . she felt it was from their friendship. For all the tension that existed between them, regardless of anything Jack said, she knew in her heart they were friends. She looked at the moon, frowning a little. A dimness seemed to cast itself across the light—thin clouds, she thought, but if they grew thicker, it would be too easy to lose their way and take the wrong road. She looked at Jack, who seemed to be lost in his own thoughts.

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