Endless Magic by Rachel Higginson

Author:Rachel Higginson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Just grace for the moment.

The dangerous moment he dragged us into.

The servants came to clear dessert from the table and their interruption allowed some necessary moments for me to find my composure. By the time the conversation could appropriately resume I teetered on a very precarious precipice between blind rage and careful calm.

I leaned into Kiran, releasing the magic I habitually kept restrained from his and prayed he could quiet my nerves and slow the frantic pulsing of electricity in my veins. I lifted my face to his and kissed the hard line of his jaw, desperate for the touch of his skin that could take away the raw inhumanity of it all.

Lucan looked on with deranged amusement. I avoided his eyes, his cocky stare and his violent, ugly magic with every ounce of strength I possessed. I even pulled from Avalon who sat in the back of my mind incensed with strangling vengeance.

I avoided Dmitri too, whose expression had turned into something like ravished hunger. I lived in the most dangerous scenario of my life; I lived in it. Day in and day out. My life and the life of others were at risk, and still Dmitri caused a chill in my blood that turned my electricity to ice and stopped my heart from beating in a regular rhythm. I felt convinced that he and Lucan were cut from the same evil, tyrannical, dangerous cloth.

“Eden, you are quite full of surprises, I think,” Dmitri broke the silence, his eyes never moving from me. “One never knows what quite to expect with you.”

“Is that so surprising?” I smiled cynically, not able to stop myself. “After all, the first time this I met his majesty, I stormed into his courtroom and tried to save a Shape-shifter,” I delivered my punch line to a perfectly attentive audience although where I expected gasps, there was only deafening silence. I thought it was a clever and innocent way to dig at Lucan, but by the replacement of Kiran's hand on my shoulder, he urged me to instantly regret not being more careful with my tongue.

“If you'll excuse us gentlemen, Mother, Amelia,” Kiran rose from the table, taking my arm to help me rise too, “we will retire for the evening.” He smiled politely at his father's guests and waited for his father to dismiss us.

“Of course,” Lucan nodded curtly, and I wondered if I had gone too far.

“It was lovely to meet you,” I gushed at Deven Joel, but included Dmitri Terletov politely with a nod of the head his direction.

“The pleasure was mine,” Deven smiled graciously at me, his eyes twinkling with pride. I had the feeling that he and I were cut from the same defiant cloth, the same cloth that recognized greatness, truth and honor and despised evil in every form.

“Eden, I do hope I will see you again in the very near future,” Dmitri purred with an excessively sweet voice. I held my shoulders forcefully still, wanting badly to shudder under those eyes, those yellow watchful, probing eyes.

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