Nora Roberts Collection by Nora Roberts

Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Historical
ISBN: 9780373482382
Amazon: 0373482388
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1991-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

He went home with her, and they ate bowls of cold pasta like ravenous children. With hunger unabated, they fell into bed and fed off each other.

Tangled with him, she slipped into sleep, and into dreams of floating in a dark sea as peacefully as the moon sailed the night sky. She drifted on her own pleasure, the water cool, the air sweet. In the distance, the shadows and shapes of her island rose out of the sea. It slept, with only the beam from the cliff light guarding it from the dark.

The music of the waves lulled her until she, too, slept.

And the stars erupted into bolts of lightning, stabbing down at the shadows and shapes of her island. Around her the sea began to thrash and heave, pulling her helplessly away from home.

She fought, striking out with hard, desperate strokes toward the fog that had begun to build a dirty wall at the shore. Waves swamped her, spun her into that breathless black, slapped her back, dragged her under.

Roaring filled the night, and the screams that followed it ripped at her heart. With what strength she had left, she reached for the fire inside her. But she was too late to beat the dark.

She watched the island fall into the sea. Even as she wept, it pulled her down with it.

She woke curled away from Sam, drawn into a tight ball and clinging to the edge of the bed. Trembling, she rose, walked to the window to soothe herself with the view of her garden, of the steady beam of the island light.

Would it come to that? Would she do everything that could be done, and have it still not be enough?

Through the night she heard the long, triumphant howl of a wolf. Knowing that it wanted her to cower, she stepped out onto her little balcony.

“I am fire.” She said it softly. “And what’s in me will, one day, purge you.”

“Mia.”

She turned and saw Sam sitting up in bed. “Yes, I’m here.”

“What is it?”

“Nothing.” She came back in, but left the doors open to the night. “Just restless.”

“Come back to bed.” He held out a hand. “Let me help you sleep.”

“All right.” She slid in beside him, turned her body to his. Invitation.

But he only drew her close, stroked her hair. “Close your eyes. Let your mind go. Let it go for one night.”

“I’m not—”

“Let it go,” he repeated, and stroking her hair, he charmed her into a deep and dreamless sleep.

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