Revenge of the Corsairs by Elizabeth Ellen Carter

Author:Elizabeth Ellen Carter
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

IT WAS LATE in the afternoon and Laura stifled a yawn, yet she could not bring herself to leave the chair on the terrace. There was something special about the sunset. Surely she had seen sky as pink as a rosebud before, but she could not recall a time. Lazy wisps of clouds of purple, pink and gold seemed to stretch from horizon to horizon. Lavender light accented every structure as far as the eye could see – the reservoir on the ridge, the outbuildings at the edge of the olive groves, the stone seat alongside the cultivated gardens.

Her eyes followed the flow of the lawn down to her little studio, where wildflowers seemed to pick up the color of the sky, little fuchsia-colored flora that seemed a favorite with the goats, except for the one or two kids which preferred their mothers’ nourishment, instead.

Laura breathed it in deep – the spring warmth, the scent in the air, a nature’s perfect blend of perfume. Perhaps she could be content here.

“I was wondering where you’d gone to.”

Elias leaned against the door, the quality of the now falling sun giving him an almost ethereal quality.

“I went down to the studio looking for Samuel’s last letter. I thought I put it in my writing box but I couldn’t find it.”

“Was it there?”

Laura shook her head. “I must have put it somewhere else, though I can’t think where. And besides, after so many visitors for… what is it called? Pasquetta?” – Elias confirmed the name with a nod – “I needed a quiet moment, then I found I couldn’t look away from this sunset.”

“They’ve been this spectacular for the past two years now,” said Elias. “I was told by someone at the British Embassy volcanoes have been erupting in the East Indies. It does things to the light.”

Laura looked back. The golden orb sat lower in the sky, much larger and rounder than she ever recalled seeing it.

“Will it stay like this forever?” She heard Elias approach and could feel the warmth of his body at her shoulder.

“Nothing stays the same forever.”

The gravity of his words jolted her from the moment.

“Not even love?”

Elias didn’t look at her; his gaze focused on the view beyond the terrace.

“Sometimes the expression of love is different,” he offered.

“I don’t understand.”

And, God help her, she didn’t. She wanted Elias to look at her but he remained resolutely fixed.

Was he talking about her? About himself? Was this something brought on by his performance in yesterday’s passion play? The certainty she had started to feel, the sureness of something solid she had counted on for many months now, shifted under her feet.

Laura felt she knew nothing for certain any more.

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