Ordri's Mate (Shifters of the Bulgarian Bloodline Book 7) by Dalia Wright

Author:Dalia Wright [Wright, Dalia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-26T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN:

A deep weariness had settled upon Delphine since Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo and since returning home. She couldn’t seem to shake off the weariness or rouse herself out of it. Nor could she stop the nightly dreams about James. She felt haunted by him at every turn. When the war had started Delphine had yearned for peace and now that peace was just around the corner she almost wished she was back on the battlefield in the thick of things, nursing James back to health. While she had no control over her dreams, she forced herself to never think about him during the day and eagerly tackled all the endless chores on the farm she had hated before. The mundane chores at least gave her respite from the haunting memories. But even so at various times throughout the day James crept into her thoughts reminding her of the hollow emptiness in her heart she would have to live with forever.

As the summer days gave away to the cooler ones of fall Delphine began to mentally prepare herself for her journey to the Americas. A pile of letters from John lay unopened in her chest of drawers; they came regularly every few days. She had opened the earlier ones but found them filled with admonishments about how disappointed and displeased he was that she had taken off to be a nurse without asking him first. One rambling letter concluded by stating,

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