Passion's Exile by Glynnis Campbell

Author:Glynnis Campbell [Campbell, Glynnis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781938114007
Publisher: Glynnis Campbell
Published: 2012-01-25T08:00:00+00:00

Rose felt numb. Time seemed to stop, and she saw the scene before her with the detachment of a dream. She knew she should look away, but her gaze was locked on the broken body speckled with blood, on the wing bent at an impossible angle, on the beak, parted in a silent scream. She sensed she should move forward, but her limbs felt weighted. She sensed she should weep, but her grief was too deep for tears.

This couldn’t be happening. Wink couldn’t be dying. ‘Twas unthinkable. Only a moment ago, Rose was smoothing the feathers over her dear falcon’s warm breast. Only a moment ago, her beloved bird soared high over the treetops.

She peered again at her wounded friend, and this time she swore the falcon looked back at her. She felt the burden of Wink’s stare like a weight pressing upon her chest. And suddenly she realized the truth.

“‘Tis my fault,” she whispered bleakly. “If only I hadn’t let her go. If only I’d waited till we were safely out o’ the wood…”

“‘Twasn’t your doin’,” Blade said firmly. But she ignored him.

“I should never have brought her on pilgrimage. I should never have taken her from Averlaigh. What does she know o’ the wild?” Her brow crumpled. “Ah, God, ‘tis all my fault.”

“Nae,” he insisted, “‘tis no one’s fault.”

But she clung to her self-reproach, for it served to suffocate her mourning. “If only I’d kept her jesses tied. If only I hadn’t let her fly free. ‘Twas my hand that wounded her, as surely as if I stuffed her between that wolf’s…” She broke off with a sob.

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