The Legend by Suzanne Robinson

The Legend by Suzanne Robinson

Author:Suzanne Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 0
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


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Chapter Twelve

The garden door slammed in Galen's face. Galen tried the latch, but it was blocked. He pounded on the door.

"Honor, you come back at once! Honor?"

She was going to do something foolish and expose herself to great peril. He knew it. He hated that she couldn't see she needed protecting. Fear for her combined with frustration at not being able to make her see reason.

Galen rammed his fist against the portal. "Aargh!"

He cradled his fist and limped back and forth for a long while, then stopped suddenly as something else occurred to him. He stared blankly at the curtain of ivy on the garden wall. He had managed to do something few of his family had done in over four generations: He'd revealed the secret of his gift to an outsider.

"Bloody damnation and hell."

He shook his aching hand and rubbed his leg while he thought furiously. In spite of having been married, Honor was naive. Eventually she would tell Sir Walter about his vision. Sir Walter, bless him, was a kindly man, but given to distraction. Sooner or later Sir Walter would betray the secret.

Growing cold at the thought, Galen hugged himself and lowered his chin to his chest. Of his brothers, only he had a gift that sometimes took the form of disorienting visions. Usually he had enough warning so that he could isolate himself before the disorientation grew too great. Since the visions were rare, this had not been difficult. But they were coming more frequently of late, and touching that jewel had evoked a vision of such violence that he'd had no time to prepare. Insights inspired by objects were rare for him, although he'd always been sensitive to his surroundings.

Galen winced as he rubbed his leg, then cursed. How could he have known Aymer Jennings had been murdered? Everyone thought he'd drowned. The signs gathered by the men who tried to find him had indicated such a mishap, and the assumption had never been questioned. But now he knew the truth.

Equally as important was how to keep Honor from revealing his secret. She wouldn't mean to do him harm, but she was such a bundle of impetuousness and calamity. Galen straightened, working his bruised ringers as he faced the truth. The de Marlowes had ways of dealing with accidental exposures such as this. Enemies who learned the secret were eliminated. In this generation there had been few such. His brother Simon had been forced to kill one in self-defense.

Honor was no enemy, and she was a woman. Marriage was the only way to ensure a woman's silence. Many generations of his mother's family had employed it. It was how his mother had married his father. Once an outsider became a member of the family, he or she shared the risks that came with these special gifts. Not every child possessed a gift, but his mother's five sons had all inherited it.

Galen had always expected one of his feckless younger brothers to be the one to get himself into trouble this way.



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