The Spirit Path by Madeline Baker

Author:Madeline Baker [Baker, Madeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Butterfly Kisses Press
Published: 2016-06-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

The next two weeks were bittersweet. Sometimes Maggie wanted to spend every minute with Hawk to savor their remaining time together, to gather memories so she’d have something to look back on when he was gone. And at other times she didn’t want to see him at all. Better to get used to being without him now, she thought miserably, to wean herself away from the sight of his face, the sound of his voice.

On those days when she couldn’t bear to be without him, they spent every moment together. He took her riding into the Hills, they swam in the pool behind the house, they went on another picnic.

One night, as they were making love, she prayed that she was pregnant, that she might have a part of Hawk to love and cherish after he was gone. She took countless pictures of him, shooting him from every side, every angle, trying to capture the essence of the man she loved.

She faced each sunset with growing dread, knowing that it meant she was one day closer to losing him forever. She told herself to be strong, that he was doing what he had to do, that he belonged back in 1872. But it was a losing battle, and it was tearing her apart inside.

Hawk was fighting his own demons. In the short time he’d spent with Maggie, he’d come to love her deeply. She was everything he had ever dreamed of, wished for, desired. She was truly a Spirit Woman, for she’d woven a spell around him from which he had no desire to escape. He loved her with his whole heart and soul; given time, he knew he could adjust to her world. And yet he couldn’t stay. With each passing day he felt more and more compelled to return to his people even though he knew there was nothing he could do to change their ultimate fate.

And then, too soon, the night of the full moon was upon them. They had tried to pretend that that day was like any other, but both had failed miserably and they had spent the afternoon and evening in each other’s arms. And now he was ready to go. Hawk knelt beside Maggie’s wheelchair, her hands clasped in his.

She gazed deep into his eyes. He had changed in the last few days and she sensed that even now he was shaking off the white man’s words and ways. He was once again wrapping himself in the ancient customs and traditions of his people. She could readily imagine him riding to battle, his face streaked with war paint, a quiver of arrows slung over his shoulder.

But when he looked at her, she saw only the man she had grown to love, his dark eyes filled with the same sadness that tore at her heart.

“I will come back to you, Mag-gie,” he promised. “If there is a way, I will come to you.”

“You said you’d stay, that you couldn’t live without me.”

“It will not be living.

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