Touch of Enchantment by Teresa Medeiros

Author:Teresa Medeiros
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Man-woman relationships, Crusades, Fiction, Romance, Historical, General, Time Travel, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780553575002
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 1997-06-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Castle Raven was open for business. Daybreak found its denizens scurrying in and out of the castle like a colony of industrious ants. With the ghost banished and their tiny lady freed from her tower prison, Colin's people were eager to reclaim both their home and their lives.

When Tabitha had finally drifted into a troubled sleep the night before, Colin had been huddled over the baby's basket, counting each of her even breaths. Tabitha had awakened at dawn to find him sprawled on his stomach on the floor of the tent, sound asleep. After covering him with one of the furs, she'd crept over to take his place, standing guard against the fleeing darkness.

Despite several eager offers, he still refused to relinquish the baby he'd christened Wee Blythe to any of the village women. He insisted on directing most of the repair efforts while carrying the baby in the crook of his arm like a squirming football. He wore Tabitha's wire-framed glasses perched low on his nose and it was the very incongruity that made him so irresistible.

The village women had to settle for fussing over Nana. Accepting that her precious charge was safe at last had done wonders for the old woman's paranoia. The near madness she'd suffered in the tower Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html

seemed to be subsiding with encouraging haste, allowing her to accept Granny Cora's offer to share a pipe beneath the refreshing shade of a willow.

Tabitha would have found their joy infectious if her own mood hadn't kept veering between exhilaration and despair. Every time her gaze accidentally brushed Colin's, she feared they would change the course of history by discovering electricity five centuries before Benjamin Franklin. The unspoken promise in his eyes sent heat sizzling through her, melting the core of ice around her heart and sending the runoff to pool in more provocative places.

But when he turned away to shout a fresh order at Ewan or Chauncey, despair gripped her. She knew she owed him the truth. Even if it meant risking the fragile bond that had grown between them. She had to tell him that she didn't belong in his arms, in his life, even in his century. But she no longer knew if she could find the courage to leave him.

And what about her parents? If their plane had gone down over the Bermuda Triangle, her return to the twenty-first century wouldn't bring them back. But if they were alive, her unexplained disappearance would break their hearts. They might live out their lives believing she'd been prey to a kidnapper or serial killer. She squeezed the amulet, almost wishing Colin had tossed the hateful thing down some bottomless well.

"Lady Tabby!" A fair-haired, baby-faced little boy with an irrespressible cowlick poked his head through an arrow loop set high in the castle wall. "Do come, Lady Tabby! Tis wee Lucy who needs rescuin' now."

"I'll be right there, Thomas." Tabitha rushed up the stairs and enhanced her reputation for daring

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