Love Potion #9 by Claire Delacroix

Author:Claire Delacroix [Delacroix, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Reincarnation, paranormal romance, tarot cards, time travel romance, tarot, second chances
ISBN: 9781927477083
Publisher: Deborah A. Cooke
Published: 2012-05-01T23:01:44+00:00

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9

The Hermit

The cards she had left on the table days before seemed to be shimmering in the starlight, even though that light couldn’t have managed to slant through the window and shine on them. Lilith knew well enough to pay attention to such things. She slipped into the living room and stared down at the old tarot cards.

They were not as she had left them.

Ten cards lay face up now, almost the entire left circle on display. Without turning on a light, Lilith sat down and touched them with her fingertips.

The Pope was number five, Mitch in his fury over Andrea’s cruise. The upholder of a code of acceptable behavior, a man unafraid to speak out for what he knows is right.

Even when he’s wrong. Lilith smiled with affection and touched the next card.

The Lovers, card number six. A card of the choice between lingering in the past and stepping on to the yellow brick road to the future. A card marking the threshold that everyone crosses between the security of parents and the potential of partners. A card indicating a realization that any choice bears a cost as well as a prize, that something must be lost in order for something else to be gained.

Something had changed the day that Kurt came knocking, not just Lilith’s choice to evict the men in front of her house, but Mitch had clearly come to a realization, as well.

Lilith’s smile broadened with the understanding of what that was. Mitch had begun to remember. Mitch had decided he wanted to remember more. Mitch had come to talk to her. Not to mention that Mitch had come to protect her from his friend’s seductive plans.

And she and Mitch had very nearly become lovers themselves in the process.

The next card was one of Lilith’s favorites - The Chariot, number seven. A card of partnership and pairing, of two different steeds pulling together toward a single goal. A card also that represents the harnessing of animal desires, the act of putting them to work for the individual’s own good instead of his detriment.

Mitch certainly had shackled their passion. Lilith traced the silhouette of the charioteer and decided it was not such a bad thing. She rather liked his determination that they should be lovers on every level when they came together again. It would make the moment a truly special one, a threshold to their future together. Lilith admired the strength of character and discipline he had developed over the years.

Because Lilith knew that when they did make love, it would be magickal in every way. She and Mitch had their own personalities, their own views of the world and ways of doing things, but like the two different steeds on the card, their objective was as one.

And lifelong partnership was a pretty good goal.

Number eight, Justice, was next. The voice of conscience and morality, it was clearly the voice of Mitch. It was also, incidentally, the card of Lilith’s creed, of living as blamelessly as possible.

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