(Arcane Society #8) Burning Lamp by Amanda Quick

Author:Amanda Quick [Quick, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parapsychology, Historical, Psychic Ability, Secret Societies, Romance, Paranormal, Secret Societies - England, Fiction, Suspense, Romantic Suspense Fiction, England, General
ISBN: 9780399156465
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-04-20T07:00:00+00:00

23

THEY WENT BACK INTO THE LIBRARY AND CLOSED THE DOOR. A cold draft wafted through the window that had been opened earlier to clear out the last of the vapor.

Adelaide stopped in the center of the carpet. Heated memories washed through her. She would never again be able to enter the room without thinking about what had happened in it. For that matter, she would very likely think about the passionate encounter every day for the rest of her life.

Griffin closed the window. Then he crossed to the fireplace and regarded the embers of the fire with a brooding expression.

Adelaide did not sit down. She knew that it would be easier to argue with Griffin if she remained on her feet.

“Do you have any notion of what you did tonight when you worked the lamp?” he asked. His tone was chillingly cold and controlled.

“My intuition told me that some of the currents of your dreamlight were not in harmony with those of the lamp,” she said. She struggled to keep her own voice calm and professional. “I simply did a little fine-tuning.”

His jaw tightened. “Fine-tuning,” he repeated. “Is that what you call it?”

“I do not think that the terrible nightmares and hallucinations will trouble you now,” she ventured. “I believe they were caused by the slight disharmony in your patterns.”

“Do you have any notion of what other surprises I might expect from the paranormal side of my nature, Adelaide?” he asked a little too politely.

She sighed. “I cannot say. But I must insist that all I did tonight was make some minor adjustments in your own natural wavelengths. The lack of harmony in the dreamlight portions of your aura was not surprising when you think about it.”

He slanted a quick, hard look at her. “What the devil do you mean?”

She took a breath. “Griffin, please listen to me. I believe that when you came into what you call your second talent a few weeks ago some of your currents were temporarily disturbed. It seems only reasonable. Your paranormal senses suddenly had to deal with a lot more energy coming from the dreamlight end of the spectrum.”

“Disturbed. Well, that is certainly one way to describe the effects of the Curse.”

She warmed to her thesis. “I think that, given time, your currents would have gradually adjusted to the new level of power. All I did tonight was hurry things along, as it were.”

His mouth twisted. “So that I can go merrily on my way to becoming a mad Cerberus?”

“I refuse to dignify that with an answer.” She gave him her most reproving glare. “I have already made it clear that, in my opinion, you are not going mad.”

He turned away from the dying fire and stalked to the window. He stood quietly for a moment looking out at the night.

“Then what in blazes is happening to me?” he asked after a time.

She looked at the glowing footprints on the floor and gently cleared her throat.

“Well, as to that I have a theory,” she said.

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