Taming the Hunter by Michele Hauf

Author:Michele Hauf
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Eryss tested the dough that had risen on the counter throughout the afternoon. It had tripled in volume. She turned the oven on, then remembered to sprinkle sesame seeds across the top of the dough for abundance.

Then she recited a charm to keep herself from being upset when Dane left the state, because she had been the one to scare him off. She should have waited for him to leave and then repaired the window and the plants. But at the time, she hadn’t had a moment to waste, or she would have risked losing so many more plants.

Finishing the charm, she pulled her fingers down from the crown of her head, envisioning a comforting white light surrounding her all the way to her bare toes. She wiggled them and pressed her palms together, tossing in a “blessed be” for good measure.

With the bread in the oven, she strode about the conservatory and noted that the plants had been decimated; about 10 percent hadn’t made it. She started collecting spent blooms for tinctures, and would repot a few in an attempt to revive the roots, but some were simply dead. She could dry the heather and perhaps even get some use out of the alyssum, but the coltsfoot was a complete loss.

So sad. She should have checked the window last night. It was remarkable that she and Dane had been so loud they hadn’t heard the falling glass. Of course, the glass had landed on a mossy pad that may have muffled the shattering. She checked the bee hut and found them nestled inside, snug as, well, bugs. And the butterfly terrarium held three chrysalises that would open in a few weeks. The temperature of the room had returned to a cozy seventy degrees, thanks to her having expended so much of her vita.

Now grounded and calm, she repeated her wish for love that she’d spoken during the anacampserote.

“Let me recognize it when it comes. And allow me to let him leave when he must.”

She didn’t suspect Dane would fall in love with her so quickly, and certainly she didn’t believe in the whole love-at-first-sight thing. And she wouldn’t perform a spell to put a man under her sensual thrall. Such spellcraft must be handled with utmost reverence for the heart.

Placing a hand over her own heart, she drew up energy from the earth through her bare feet and fixed it into her being. With a heavy exhalation to release doubt and anxiety, she nodded and said, “So mote it be.”

At that moment someone rapped on the back door. Eryss’s heart sped up. “Dane.”

She rushed to answer the door, but when she gripped the knob she paused. Her heart raced with excitement. Giddiness sparkled in her veins. On the other side of the door stood a man who made her days bright and her nights delectable. He was smart, kind and funny. And...

She dared not doubt her intuition regarding their loving through the ages. She would not.

She

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