Once a Wolf

Author:Krinard, Susan [Krinard, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780307573698
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2000-07-05T07:00:00+00:00

It was over at last.

Felícita knelt behind a rock at the top of the rocky slope, pressing her hands to her chest. The brown wolf scrambled up from the stream and ran past her without stopping, but she made herself as small as she could until he was long gone from sight.

Even after Rowena gathered up her things and left, it was many minutes before Felícita found the energy to walk again. Her head still hummed like a hive full of bees. Not only her head, but her heart and every part of her body. She'd been caught at the leading edge of a storm, helpless amid the seething emotions of the two who had come together at the pool.

She still did not understand everything that had happened. One moment she had been happier than she could remember, playing in the water with her friend at her side, and the next she was watching the great brown wolf become the man who'd saved her life.

It was not that which shocked her. If Tomás was a brujo, he was not bad. She had already guessed that he was no ordinary man, as the lady was no ordinary woman. And they had saved her life.

But when he came to the pool, he chased away the fragile contentment she and Rowena had found. Felícita no longer existed, for all the world converged on the two who looked at each other across the water.

All the world became what they felt for each other.

Felícita picked her way down to the poolside to retrieve the skirt Rowena had folded and left on the rock. The place was safe now; raw emotion no longer vibrated in the stones at her feet or filled the water with heat that did not burn. She could almost put from her mind the sight of Rowena's face when Tomás began to touch her.

The sight, but not the passion. Felícita could run away from what she did not wish to see, when the feelings of others became too strong and confusing in her head. But she was not safe. Not even here.

Now she knew why the people who paid Tio to speak with her were so eager to believe the good things she told them, even when she could only guess what they wished to hear. She had wished to believe that running away from the village would be enough.

She had chosen to come to this cañon with Rowena and Tomás. They were strong; they would rescue her from the dangers of a world she did not understand.

But the lady could not protect her completely. If her strength was great, her feelings were just as irresistible. Felícita heard them, no matter how hard she tried not to. When the lady thought of Tomás, they became almost frightening—as frightening as those of Sim Kavanagh.

Yet there had been times, like this morning in the casa, when she wished so very much to help the lady in her distress. She had needed to help, but she didn't know how.

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