Meet Me At the Castle by Denise A. Agnew

Author:Denise A. Agnew
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Love Story
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Published: 2014-05-10T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Damian waited, his heart heavy with sadness. In his heart he was cold, his insides freezing and his heart cracked like ice.

He had flared into being moments before, then remembered Elizabeth would not come to see him. She’d been banished to London to find a husband.

Pain clutched at his gut, but it was not a mortal ache. It was the knowledge that the last precious thing in the world to him had been taken.

Elizabeth.

How could it happen yet again? Did he deserve damnation even now, after all the time he had spent in this cold castle repenting for his sins? Even the thought of how her blue eyes, so stricken as he had departed, brought him misery unsurpassed by anything he had known centuries ago.

Why had he materialized now, when he knew he could no longer touch her, no longer hear her sweet voice or touch her smooth flesh?

Perhaps being tied to this place for so many years had not been enough punishment. Over the years his nocturnal wanderings had never given him peace. For always he had the memory of his last days, of the greed and hatred and revenge he had brought upon those who had taken his dearest, most precious wife from him. Oh, would that he could go relive time and return the lives he had taken. It would not have brought back his beloved wife, but neither had his unspeakable revenge. Instead he had been cursed to this hell.

To forever wander the night with no sleep. No rest for his soul.

Until…until he had been able to see Elizabeth. She had wandered into the castle as a child, unafraid. She did not feel the fear as other children and adults had when they wandered this fortress. Within her lived a strength, a knowledge more powerful than anyone who had passed through these ancient halls. She could cross over that fine veil between mortal reality and what lay beyond.

On her canvas she had painted all that had once been at Cromar, captured its finest days of glory. Had brought to life all that had been dead and barren. Had reawakened that which had been good within the castle walls, and banished all the evil.

He knew Elizabeth had felt the souls of the departed, of the history that clung to a spot where so much evil and so much love had flourished. And perhaps his growing love for her over the years had nourished her and given her strength to withstand those who did not love her and did not care. He had been content to watch her grow and learn; seeing her beautiful face in the moonlight had been all he needed. Until he had taken this solid form. Until he could touch her as only he had dreamed. Why? Why had he been given a taste of her sweet flesh when he knew it could not last?

He paced the stones beneath his feet, but finally stopped. He looked into the black sky, through the holes in the roof of Cromar high above.

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