Twilight Magic by Shari Anton

Author:Shari Anton [ANTON, SHARI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC027050
ISBN: 9780446535991
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2007-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Darian wanted the night to go on forever, with them tangled in the sheets, his body pressed against Emma’s.

He’d meant to sleep elsewhere and ended up in bed with her. Again. And at the moment he couldn’t bring himself to care.

Sated and bone weary, he couldn’t summon the will to move away from the woman sleeping in his arms.

Her revelations had been so astonishing Darian still wasn’t sure he’d absorbed all she told him of her visions—especially her vision of him.

A woman possessed of ancient and distinguished line-age, a Pendragon no less, had put reputation and life at risk to ensure her vision of him came true.

He pushed back several strands of silken hair from her cheek. How beautiful Emma was, inside and out. Of practical nature—most of the time—she was quick to smile and usually easy to talk to.

He couldn’t remember the last time he’d talked to a woman as much as he’d talked to Emma. On the ride to London, he’d revealed more of his past to her than any living being besides Earl William.

Emma had trusted him with the truth this time. As fantastical as her explanation sounded, he couldn’t believe she’d contrived the tale.

The visions she suffered bothered her immensely. She claimed the visions weren’t heaven-sent enlightenments but unholy revelations, and he could understand why she might consider them thus. How horrible for her to envision her mother’s death and not know what to do about it. So Emma had witnessed her mother’s death twice—in vision and then reality.

Unbelievable. Except he believed in her visions, just as she’d believed his innocence.

Not that he was an innocent.

What would Emma think of him if told he wasn’t merely a mercenary, but an assassin? If de Salis hadn’t been murdered on the streets of Southwark, the man would have died a few days later of a silent, secret assassination, of which Darian would have been guilty.

He could almost imagine her horror. Certes, she wouldn’t now be pressed skin to skin with him, sleeping peacefully.

He breathed in her enticing scent, deciding Emma didn’t need to know the whole truth. Were they in a permanent marriage, he might feel obligated to inform her of precisely how he served William of Ypres, of what he’d done in the earl’s service.

Except the marriage wasn’t permanent, so he saw no good reason to upset her. Emma believed him to be honest and honorable. The truth fell short of both.

Perhaps, when the time came to apply for the annulment, revealing the repulsive acts he’d committed might prove useful. No right-minded bishop, except perhaps Bishop Henry, would approve of a noblewoman’s marriage to an assassin. The pope certainly wouldn’t.

But that was for the future.

For now, ’twas probably best to do as Emma suggested and go on as they’d planned.

Too bad she disliked her visions so much that she’d stopped having them. What a boon if she could see de Salis’s murderer in a basin of water!

Could she control the visions? Likely not, or she wouldn’t fight them so hard, preferring the head pain to knowing what the future held.

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