Passage of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin

Author:Chasity Bowlin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

ADELAIDE STARED at the small work area they’d set up on the beach. The sky was blue but there were clouds in the distance. “Let us hope, now, that it doesn’t rain,” she said.

Madame Leola smiled as she looked at the large salt circle they’d cast. They’d spread out several blankets there where they could work without getting the charges damp. “Fate did not bring us here for a bit of rain to interfere now.”

Adelaide smiled. “I told Eldren that it was fate that brought me here. Is that wishful thinking? Or is it true? I want it to be. But perhaps it is simply a series of coincidences.”

“You are the only living descendent of Igrida. Your mother, a poor shop girl with gypsy blood, manages to marry one the wealthiest and most influential men in New York City who happens to be business partners with nobleman living in the house that Igrida, for lack of better word, haunts? Your ship sinks and you are struck with such fear at the thought of crossing the ocean, you remain here, marrying a man you barely know when you are the only one who has the ability to end the curse on his family? Can you honestly think that is coincidence?”

“When you put it in those terms, then yes, I suppose it is a bit far fetched to assume there was not some divine intervention in all of it,” Adelaide agreed.

“And did you all resolve your difficulties last night?” Leola asked.

Adelaide could feel herself blushing. “We did.”

“He fears for you,” Leola said. “He is afraid that he cannot protect you and also that he will lose you.”

“And I’m afraid of losing him,” Adelaide admitted. “But until this darkness is no longer looming over us, we’ll never really have each other anyway.”

Leola’s eyebrows lifted. “I think your husband would beg to differ. The way he looks at you implies that he will have you at any moment.”

Catching the other woman’s sly tone and double entendre, Adelaide glanced up to see Eldren traipsing through the trees carrying two stacked crates of greenery. Warren was at his heels and Lord Mortimer, who’d been watching for them, brought up the rear with the remainder.

“There are a few more crates,” Warren said as he deposited his boxes inside the circle. “I’ll go back for them.”

“Wait and I’ll go with you,” Lord Mortimer insisted. “None of us should go anywhere alone for the next twenty-four hours. They are crucial, after all.”

“Yes,” Madame Leola said. “More so than anyone here knows. It’s imperative that we act now and end this before she grows any stronger.”

Warren looked at all of them as if they were mad. “Isn’t it a bit presumptive to be speaking about all of this here? And what do you mean her?”

Adelaide realized just how far behind he was on all that they had discovered. Until Frances was removed from the picture it had been too dangerous to tell him anything. “Eldren you and Lord Mortimer go and retrieve the remaining crates and Leola and I fill in the gaps in your brother’s knowledge.

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