Trilby

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Adult, Historical, Western
ISBN: 9780373772261
Google: cXp6zg9BIxUC
Amazon: 0373776322
Barnesnoble: 0373776322
Goodreads: 1779904
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1993-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

“My brother is a terrible man.”

“Is your father like him?”

She sighed. “I’m afraid so. But my mother is like me. She’s very much against the old ways. She thinks women should use their minds. She thinks we should be allowed to vote,” she added, with a smile.

“Apaches are not allowed to vote,” he replied, and laughed shortly. “It is our country, and we are denied suffrage.”

“Many injustices need correction,” she said.

“Indeed.”

She stood quietly in his arms and there was peace between them for a long time. “I must leave tomorrow.”

“A wise decision,”he replied. “It grows more difficult for me to leave you when we part.”

“It is difficult for me as well.”

He traced her chin with his thumb and slowly pushed it up so that he could see her eyes in the dim light from the moon. “You would like to sleep with me, would you not?”he whispered.

“Yes,” she replied honestly.

“And I with you.” He sighed. “I wish that you were Apache.”

“And I that you were white.” She reached up and kissed the corner of his mouth. “Naki, you could come to Louisiana with

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He put his finger over her mouth. “Never speak my name,” he said. “It is a taboo among us. A name has power.”

She smiled. “You are very superstitious.”

“It is my heritage.” He stroked her long hair. “I cannot leave here. Back East, I would be nothing more than a curiosity or an embarrassment. This is where I belong.”

“I could stay,” she said boldly.

“And live in a primitive shack on a reservation?” he asked sadly. “Where you would be treated like a disease? Many of my people hate whites.”

She groaned. “Why does it have to be like this?”

His powerful shoulders lifted and fell. “Who can say?” he replied sadly. “We are of a kind, you and I. How we found our way each to the other, I do not know. But my life will be empty without you in it.”

“And mine without you,” she said huskily.

He bent to her lips, kissing her softly, with aching tenderness.

“Oh, not like that,” she pleaded, tugging at his long, thick hair.

He untangled her fingers and clasped them warmly. “Just like that,” he corrected. “So that we can part without any risk of stepping across the line of convention.”

“I would risk anything—” she began.

“The child we made would pay our price,” he reminded her. “And it would be a high one.”

She desisted. “You’re right, of course. Why are you always right?”

“Oh, because I am superior and brilliant.”

She laughed and struck his chest playfully. “You are conceited.”

“It is the inevitable result of having a beautiful and intelligent woman throw herself at me,” he whispered.

She reached up and kissed him gently. “So it is.” She pressed close then, determined not to give way to tears. Her heart felt as if it might break inside her.

Naki, sensitive to her emotions, felt that sadness echoed inside himself. Giving her up was the only sensible thing to do.

That didn’t make it easy. He’d never known what loneliness was before, even if he’d thought so when Conchita was killed.

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