The Magic's in the Music (Magic Series Book 5) by Susan Squires

Author:Susan Squires [Squires, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Published: 2015-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

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Greta stood, naked, in front of the window that looked out across the side lawns of the big house to the stables and the riding rings lower down. The last starlight flickered through the remaining leaves of the tree outside. A stiff breeze coming in off the ocean stirred the leaves and brushed against her face.

She didn’t worry about Lanyon coming up behind her because she could feel him pacing some distance away. Probably the terrace. Which gave her something else to worry about. She knew where he was. No doubt about it. She could also smell the scent of sex hanging heavy in the room, and the wax on the wood floor. She could smell the dry paper scattered over his desk, the leather of the boots he’d left at the foot of the bed. She stood very still, as if that would contain her panic.

Something had happened to her.

Exhibit number one: she never had sex with a guy she hardly knew. Not her style. Not that she was the traditional good girl, but she at least knew her partners well before she took a chance like having sex. That made you vulnerable to others in ways that no other action could match. And the sex tonight had been almost violent in its intensity. No way around that. The orgasms were not even in the same league with the ones in her previous experience—no doubt why she’d passed out for a few hours.

So. What the hell was going on? Witchcraft? Voodoo? Right. The guy was a loon as well as a serious alcoholic. But something was going on.

She steadied her breathing and stared at the stars. They had always been able to calm her. Light, coming from millions and millions of miles away—that’s what stars were. You had to take the suns and planets behind them on faith unless you had a telescope. The only evidence they gave of their existence to the naked eye was light. And that light told so much about them. The spectrographs analysis that broke the light into pieces said what chemicals the stars were made of. The light told you how big they were and how hot they burned. And that light crossed time and space to twinkle in the heavens, bathing her with serenity and…how could she describe it? Sureness about the world and her place in it.

She breathed in, staring at the lighted heavens as if they could answer all her questions and reveal the composition of the world in enough detail to make it comprehensible. Because she was having a hard time comprehending anything about now.

No wonder people believed in astrology. The secrets of composition and position and movement of those hidden celestial bodies explained where everything had started, and where it was going. The stars must have some bearing on who we are and why we’re here, and what we should do, mustn’t they? The light was their secret message.

She stared at the twinkling light through the dwindling leaves until her breathing steadied.

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