Horsman, Jennifer by Crimson Rapture

Author:Crimson Rapture
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-09-03T23:15:05+00:00

Christina was lost in a debilitating numbness that could not overcome an increasing anxiety. Justin had been gone for three days now and no one had seen him. For this she was glad and had it been in her power to snap her fingers and disappear, never to see him again, she would not hesitate. But she would see him again, and soon.

What would she do? What would she say? She didn't know; didn't know how she could know. She could not escape the nightmarish vision of that night: Justin standing over a man who had fallen to his knees, helpless with pain and begging for mercy. Then, Justin cruelly lifting him to deceive with an embrace before...

Christina started, realizing she had been staring numbly into the gray depths of the lagoon for nearly an hour, lost to the vision that haunted even her sleep. Fresh water rushed into salt. The morning's gray sky painted the lagoon and the ocean beyond gray, a bleak and dismal gray that seemed to offer no hope.

Christina had been sitting by herself on the beach for a long time, too long, Hanna thought. As she made her way down the beach toward her friend, she had known something troubled Christina for some time. Christy had been all to herself since Justin went hunting and the ill man had been buried. While Christy had taken a fancy to Diego, she seemed far more troubled than grieved. Something was wrong, she just knew it. She had tried many times to earn her friend's confidence but to no avail; Christina would only say it was of no real concern.

Hanna beckoned softly from behind. "Christy?"

Christina turned and saw Hanna. In that moment and for no apparent reason, the world suddenly came into sharp focus and she knew what she would do.

She would leave him. Until that was possible, she would avoid him. There would be times when avoidance was impossible; mayhap he would force his company upon her, physically or otherwise. There was little she could do to stop him. But she could disappear perhaps for days on end if she hid in the wilds and at least then, when the opportunity came to leave him, it would come as no surprise.

As for her love, a love she suddenly knew as real and passionate and undying, she would just have to accept it for what it was—a mistake. This was not a paradox, for she quite literally loved him against her will, but she would not submit to that love—no matter how powerful—with a lifetime of anguish.

"Christy?" Hanna beckoned again, disturbed by the determined stare, "why are ye lookin' like that?"

Everything came with the fresh vision of a babe in arms. Hanna, sweet Hanna. The island had transformed her as well. Whereas Lady Knolls had tumbled down the formidable class structure, Hanna had been elevated. Once merely a plump, jolly maid, now elevated to the lofty position of a sea captain's wife. A great equalizer this island was; shifting and shaping lives irrevocably.

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