Prince of Magic by Linda Winstead Jones

Author:Linda Winstead Jones [Jones, Linda Winstead]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780425214480
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Ariana felt like she could melt through the floor. She had always known that death was possible, she had even of ten thought it was likely. But to see it written this way, not as a possibility but as a certainty…

Sian had known all along. He had purposely hidden the truth from her. He'd trained her, shared her bed, come to care for her… and all that time he'd been lying to her.

"Ariana."

Her head snapped up when he called her name so softly. He remained there in her bed, naked and maddeningly calm. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"To what end?" Sian asked as he left the bed. He moved toward her, but she backed away two short steps. She did not want him to touch her. Not now.

"Must there be an end to the truth? Must every word that leaves your mouth be weighed and calculated and… and… cold?" she finished. "Calculated and cold, that's what you are."

Sian reached for his trousers… trousers that had been hanging on a chair near the coat she had been drawn to as she'd dressed. It was as if a little voice in the back of her head had whispered, You know the prophesy is there. You know you want to read it before you leave.

And so she had. Now she wished she had ignored the impulse that had driven her to read this prophesy which doomed her.

Sian pulled on his trousers quickly. "I have been studying the witches' journals from Level Seven, trying to find a way back from the Land of the Dead as I searched for more information on the Isen Demon."

"There is no way back from the Land of the Dead," she snapped as she threw the prophesy at him.

"How do you know? Perhaps there is something we don't know of which can change this prophesy. A spell or a potion or an amulet…"

"Stop it," Ariana ordered in a lowered voice. She raised her chin, and even though everything that meant anything to her was currently falling apart, she did not cry. She did not even whimper.

Not everything in her heart was gone. She still had the love of her family, and the knowledge that her actions could save many people much pain. What she'd lost was Sian, and in truth, he had never been hers. If he had been hers in the ways she had imagined, he would not have lied to her.

"You're dismissed," she said calmly. "I hope your journey home is a pleasant one." Words caught in her throat, but she did not let the reaction show. "No wonder you never told me where you lived. You knew all along that I would not be looking for you when the battle was done, because when the battle is done, I'll be dead."

He reached for her.

"Don't, Sian." She tilted her head slightly and studied the face of the man she'd thought she knew so well. "Does every man lie when it suits him? Is any man capable of

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