To Love in Silence (Currents of Love Book 3) by Emilee Harris

Author:Emilee Harris [Harris, Emilee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emilee Harris
Published: 2019-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

ERIC SHIVERED AS A gust of icy wind washed over him the instant he opened the door to the back patio and gardens. Stepping out into the glistening night, he eased the door shut behind him, careful to keep as quiet as possible. Neither the servants’ quarters nor the family rooms were near this entry, but he would rather not take the chance of waking anyone else. Stepping to the edge of the snow-covered patio, Eric laid his hands on a clear segment of the stone balustrade separating the house from the gardens and leaned out slightly to scan the grounds.

Stars shone like so many glittering diamonds in the clear night sky, offsetting the deep midnight blue of the heavens and winking down at a slumbering world while a full moon shone over the expanse, casting a surreal glow over the bejeweled flowers and grass. The specter he saw from his balcony had disappeared. For a moment, he doubted his senses, wondering if he’d been too quick in his haste to come out to the garden. Perhaps his worried thoughts and restless sleep had conjured the sight of Eloise when in actuality she lay warm and content, asleep in her bed.

His eyes continued to scan over the gardens a moment longer, but to no avail. About to give up the endeavor, convinced his mind had been playing tricks on him, a flash of color invaded his periphery. Off to his right, something moved in the distance. He squinted into the darkness, trying to make out the shape to no avail.

Heading down the steps, he skirted the gardens in the direction of the pond. The recent frosts and snow had iced over a portion of the pond, but temperatures had not been low and consistent enough to solidify the body of water. Though he and his siblings often skated over the pond in the winter months as children, the winter never promised that treat.

The pond lay in the dip of a small hill, making the expense of water temporarily invisible on the approach until the observer crested the hill and was able to take in the full scene. Within steps of that eventuality, the cold creeping ever deeper into his bones, he berated himself for a fool for having run out into the snow on a midnight delusion. He would scan over the pond, then return to his room. Cresting the hill, no rabbit or fox or other fauna met his gaze. Instead, that same otherworldly apparition, walking slowly, clad in white with burnished copper hair floating at her back met his gaze. Eloise.

Eric's heart sank. What was she doing out here? Picking up pace, he trotted toward her, attempting to get close enough to call her without the sound carrying over the still night. Within seconds his heart took on a panicked pace as he closed the distance and realized Eloise was not walking toward the pond, but on the pond. She had reached and exceeded the frozen outer edges of the water, yet she continued to walk forward in peril of stepping through the thin ice.

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