Dark Jewels 04 Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop

Author:Anne Bishop [Bishop, Anne]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-08T08:21:36.602000+00:00

The compulsion spell had worked, but not well enough. The little hearth bitch was

fighting it. If she'd been able to wrap the spell around Marian, everything would

be done by now. But if Lucivar had sensed any kind of spell, he would have

summoned his father to help him identify and break it, and Saetan… No, it

wouldn't do to have Saetan become aware of that spell. So she'd wrapped the

compulsion spell around her own voice, and her words had stuck to Marian like

warm tar.

But not enough. Caution had forced her to keep the spell light. Too light, it

seemed. Because it was clear to her that Marian would try to remain as Lucivar's

housekeeper, and if the hearth witch was still here when the spell wore off

completely…

No. She wasn't going to have her son married to a hearth witch.

It might look suspicious to show up so soon after Lucivar's departure, so she'd

wait an hour and return to give the compulsion spell a little boost…one that

would get Marian out of the eyrie… and out of Lucivar's life.

Merry threw a shawl around her shoulders. "Briggs, can you watch things for a

little while?"

"Sure I can, but where are you going?"

She saw the worry in her husband's eyes. He had reason to worry. They both did.

Lucivar had never walked into their tavern at opening time to gulp down three

double whiskeys before he stormed out again, his eyes full of fury and pain. The

Prince of Ebon Rih needed help, and there were only two people she could think

of who could give it to him right now.

"I think Lady Angelline is staying at her cottage. I'm going to try to

find her." And if she couldn't find Jaenelle, she'd go to the Keep. The Seneschal

would know how to reach the Queen or the High Lord.

"Be careful, Merry."

"That I will." But as she left the tavern, she glanced up at the mountain where

Lucivar made his home…and wondered what had happened there.

Lucivar strode into the room that had become Saetan's study at the Keep. Part of

him wished he was still a child who could climb into his father's lap for comfort.

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