Trisha Baker - Crimson 02 by Crimson Night

Author:Crimson Night [Night, Crimson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-15T22:03:23+00:00

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

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August 18, 1998

Meghann looked around the dark, dank chamber with loathing. This was where Simon had tortured Jimmy. Bile rose in her throat when her eyes settled on the iron maiden, the door to the casket ajar but empty now.

Against her will, Meghann remembered when that foul contraption had contained the body of her lover. Was it her imagination or did she see small drops of blood glistening on the brutal spikes in the door of the iron maiden? Jimmy’s blood? how it must have hurt when those spikes settled into his flesh as Simon slammed the door shut and how Jimmy must have screamed?

“No, please, no. I don’t want to see!” Meghann pleaded with whatever force, be it her subconscious or something stronger, used her dreams to drag her back to this awful place.

“Look carefully at this room, Banrion,” a somber voice intoned behind her, and Meghann spun around to see Alcuin standing in the center of the room, his gentle brown eyes filled with sorrow and pity while he addressed her. “This chamber is a perfect reflection of Simon Baldevar’s soul?dark, bleak, twisted, and capable of any cruelty to gain what he wants. Is that the kind of man you want to raise your child with?”

“Don’t you lecture me on what kind of man Simon is,” Meghann fired back, for the first time addressing Alcuin without the utmost respect and love. She wasn’t won over by his addressing her with the pet name of Banrion; she remembered all Simon had told her. “Even he doesn’t prey on pregnant women.”

“What Guy did to you last night was despicable,” Alcuin said, and Meghann had never seen his gentle eyes look so sad. “I would never deny that and I will not allow him to go on thinking he did it for me. But he was not the one that caused this situation. Guy, like everyone else, is terrified of Lord Baldevar. That terror brought all the flaws in Guy’s soul to the surface. I am not trying to excuse Guy?he will suffer for his behavior. But I do not believe he would have hurt you if Lord Baldevar hadn’t made you conceive.”

“Would you have hurt me because Simon made me conceive?” Meghann demanded angrily. “Was Simon right?were you going to stand by and let me die without telling me I needed his blood to survive?”

“Never,” Alcuin said firmly. “Lord Baldevar achieving the philosophers’ stone may present a grave threat to all that oppose him but I would never sanction your death to neutralize that threat. Meghann, you are an innocent in all of this. I know that wicked fiend forced himself upon you.?”

Meghann sagged against the iron maiden. “Alcuin, that’s a lie. Simon? he didn’t force himself on me that night. ?”

“No!” Alcuin came to her side, clutching her arms with a grip that hurt even in a dream. “Banrion, brute strength isn’t the only way to rape a woman. Never underestimate Lord Baldevar’s cleverness.

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