The Naked Battle by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland [Cartland, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Large Type Books
ISBN: 9780553114102
Google: OUgKcAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0553114107
Publisher: Magna Print
Published: 1977-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Then as the whole world swam dizzily around her he set her free.

"Good-bye, Lucilla," he said in English and his voice was hoarse.

He went from the Pavilion before she could move.

She stood where he had left her, then slowly, very slowly her hands went up to cover her eyes as if she could no longer bear the golden radiance which had enveloped them both and which had now gone.

"I love him!" she told herself wonderingly.

She heard her voice whispering the words and they seemed to echo and re-echo and come back to her from the small walls which had for so long enclosed a dream.

Afterwards Lucilla could never remember how she got through the days which followed.

It seemed to her as if she moved through a haze and that a fog like the clouds that covered the mountains enveloped her so that she could neither see nor hear clearly what was happening around her.

All she was conscious of was the feeling that Don Carlos's mouth was still on hers, that his lips held her captive and his arms clasped her to his heart.

She was conscious of him in the daytime as she moved 84

and spoke like an automaton. At night she thought that she lay in his arms and recaptured the sensations, the rapture and the wonder he had brought her with his kiss.

"I love him!" she told herself not once but a thousand times and knew that she would never love anyone else.

She was sure that she was the type of woman who loved once and once only in her life, and since the wonder of it had come and gone she would live only with a memory.

She did not rebel against the thought. She was humble enough to know that while he filled her whole life to the exclusion of all else, she in fact could mean nothing to him.

For one thing she was an enemy, for another she was a foreigner, and she was sure that if there were women in his life they would be like Catherine or Manuela Saenz, brilliant, beautiful women - birds of Paradise who would be his equal in every way.

And yet he had kissed her. It might have been just in gratitude, she was not doubting that was the reason for it.

At the same time it had transformed her from an insignificant girl who had no opinion of herself into a woman who glowed with the wonder, the beauty and the ecstasy of love.

She felt as if she had changed overnight into someone very different from what she had been before.

Because no-one paid any attention to her in the house except for the servants - for her father never looked at her if he could help it and Catherine was entirely absorbed with her own interests - no-one noticed any difference but Lucilla knew it was there.

She had only to look at her eyes in the mirror to sec that they shone with a strange radiance and her face seemed to have changed too.

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