The Witching Hour by Liliana Hart

Author:Liliana Hart [Hart, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Liliana Hart
Published: 2015-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

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Eloise tossed and turned most of the night, her dreams plagued with images of the vivid pictures Barrett had painted. In her dreams—nightmares really—she was Amelia Goodnight. And Barrett’s face was the same as John’s—the man who completed her in mind, body, and soul.

Each time she had to say goodbye to the man she loved and the daughter she never got the chance to know, her heart broke all over again. And then the axe fell and she woke, gasping for air and tears drying on her cheeks.

Then sometime before dawn her mind quieted and she fell into a deeper sleep. It was no longer John’s face she saw when she dreamt. There were subtle differences between the two. Barrett’s cheekbones were sharper, his jaw more square, and his hair several shades lighter. But they could have been brothers so eerie was their resemblance.

And she was no longer Amelia. It was just the two of them—a lifetime of someone else’s memories shared between them and their present day bodies. But still…she knew him. Knew she could trust him as he’d asked. And she realized what she’d shared with Sam had been a mockery to the real meaning of soulmates. There was one magic that couldn’t be manipulated or falsified—true love. And what she’d had with Sam had been the biggest illusion of them all.

“You’re a very stubborn witch,” Barrett said, leaning against the door to her workroom. “I always loved that about you.”

“Lets not mix the present with the future. We’re different people now.” Eloise looked around at the familiar space and then down at the sweats, t-shirt and work apron she wore. It was disorienting considering she’d been in bed and her in nightclothes just moments before.

“It’s your dream,” Barrett said with a smile. “I’m more than happy to have you back in the bed. Minus the nightclothes this time.”

“It’s rude to peek at my thoughts.”

“I was sleeping peacefully in my own bed and all of a sudden showed up here. This is your show, honey. If you don’t want me to peek at your thoughts then you should block them.”

Eloise narrowed her eyes and put her hands on her hips. “You can be just as aggravating now as you were three hundred years ago.”

“I believe that’s one of the many reasons you loved me. You told me so on more than one occasion.”

“What’s happening here, Barrett? I don’t understand any of this. Minerva has disappeared and says she can’t see what’s going to happen. There’s a warning on the horizon. Then you show up out of the blue, and all I can think is that we’re preparing to repeat the past.”

She took off the apron and folded it, laying it on the work table. She wasn’t sure why she bothered. It was a dream after all.

“I wish I could give you answers, love. I wish I could have found you sooner.”

“This is very strange. It’s like I know you, but I don’t.”

“I’ve spent my entire life roaming from one place to the next, wherever and whenever the urge struck.

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