Magic in the Stars by Patricia Rice

Author:Patricia Rice [Rice, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, paranormal psychics, romantic comedy, humor, astrology, astronomy, aristocrat, nobility
ISBN: 9781611385779
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Published: 2016-03-29T07:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

Aster stared at his lordship with wide-eyed incredulity. Her heart was beating so fast, she thought she might actually faint. After weeks of work and the utter fiasco . . . then his proposal on top of his kisses . . . How could she begin to think?

No, impossible! was her first reaction to his proposal.

“If my charts are wrong, and I’m not the danger, then everything about my life is wrong,” she cried, ignoring more pertinent problems pounding at the door. “I thought perhaps the asteroids unduly influencing some of our behavior caused the differences I cannot see in my charts, but they cannot change what houses we’re born in!”

She wanted back in Theo’s arms again. The world went away when he held her. He’d bravely stomped out flames and ruined his beautiful clothes and saved her from being Roast Stupid. She’d always been the Prophetess of Doom who protected everyone else—but her pathetic cowardice longed for a strong man like Theo who could provide courage when hers failed.

She wanted to be a normal woman who could kiss a man without fear—a woman who could have a family. And she wasn’t. No kiss could change the day she was born.

“The asteroids are chunks of rock and ice,” Lord Theo said disdainfully, dropping to his knees at her feet and ripping off her charred flounce, while unnecessarily holding her ankle. “They float between Mars and Jupiter and have no effect on anything whatsoever. You may as well blame Saturn and Uranus and the other planet we know is beyond them—if only our telescopes were stronger.”

“Uranus?” she asked faintly, leaning over to watch him remove the smelly frill. “What is Uranus?”

“A planet,” he said in irritation. “And there are undoubtedly more of them we can’t see. Your charts are based on ancient astronomy. It’s your instincts you need to heed. What do your instincts say about me?”

“There is another planet beyond Saturn?” she asked in utter awe and a new kind of horror—one of changes so immense that she thought her world might explode.

“Probably dozens. That’s irrelevant.”

Dozens? Irrelevant? Before she could scream her dismay, he continued.

“You predicted Duncan’s accident without need of Uranus or asteroids or moons. Perhaps it’s you and not your charts that matter. My mother predicted an angel would fall out of the sky meant just for me, and you’re that angel. Would you dismiss my mother’s predictions?”

“You are funning me,” she said, withdrawing the foot from which he was stripping a stocking. Too confused to argue about her charts when her whole world was cracking open, she fell on the unrelated topic. “I’m hardly an angel, although falling from the sky might explain the cloudbursts that follow us.”

“See?” He yanked off her other shoe and stocking. “Your instincts figured out what I couldn’t. I was waiting for you to land on my head.”

Was he actually agreeing that she might have an unusual gift?

On the other side of the door, voices rumbled. Aster feared they’d be removing the hinges shortly.

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