Deceit by Deborah White

Author:Deborah White [Deborah White]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848774148
Publisher: Templar Publishing
Published: 2013-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

I say that I do not want him to leave me, but every day after that he goes out into the streets and, with the poles and rope he has bought, turns somersaults and dances for money. And every day he comes back with food and drink, but he refuses me laudanum. I ask for it constantly at first, but the burning need I felt for it now seems past. Every day I feel more at peace and lighter of heart. I even begin to imagine that we might live safely here in France, Christophe and I; that Nicholas has forgotten me and the casket and the quest for his one true daughter.

I lie safe at night in Christophe’s arms and, as the candlelight flickers and casts shadows across the walls and ceiling, we plan our lives together just as any ordinary lovers might do. How we will live, how many children we might have, how soon we can marry…

And Christophe talks of the baby I carry as if it is his own child. He will teach her, he says, to dance on the rope as soon as she is old enough. And, in memory of my father, I will teach her to love books. We will live in peace and obscurity. All thoughts of Doctor Nicholas Robert Benedict will fade until he seems nothing more than a dream and the Emerald Casket will lie in the orchard undisturbed and forgotten. If you desire something enough then surely it is possible to make it happen…?

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