Dark Embrace by Eve Silver EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Eve Silver
- Language: English
- Genre: Gothic Romances
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London, November 3, 1839
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DYING MOMENTS OF DARKNESS AND SHADOW FOUGHT TO STAVE OFF THE
first creeping fingers of the dawn as Sarah Lowell walked the familiar route
through the edge of St. Giles, north of Seven Dials. Her boots rang on the
wet cobbles as she ducked through the dim alleys and twisting lanes, past
wretched houses and tenements, and rows of windows, patched and broken.
Wariness was her sole companion.
A part of her was attuned to the street before her, the gloomy, faintly
sinister doorways, the courtyards that broke from the thoroughfare. And a
part of her was ever aware of the road behind, dim and draped in shadows
and menace.
She was alone…or was she? The scrape of a boot sounded from
somewhere behind her.
Would that it was the cold that made her shiver. But, no, it was unease
that did the deed.
Her twice-daily trek along these streets and laneways was something
other than routine. More times than not she felt as though unseen eyes
watched her from the gloom, footsteps dogging her every move. In the
months since her father’s death, she had become increasingly aware that
someone followed her.
Beneath her cloak, she closed her fist tighter around the handle of her
cudgel. She never left her room in the lodging house in Coptic Street
without the short, sturdy stick. With good reason.
St. Giles was not a place for a woman alone. But, unfortunately, poverty
did not allow for over-particular standards. She had little choice in where
she lived but she could—and did—choose to protect herself. She had
neither the means, nor the inclination, to own a pistol, and she had
considered—and discarded—the possibility of defending herself with a
knife.
So, the cudgel it was, and she prayed she never found herself in a
circumstance where she would be required to use it on another human
being.
Should those prayers go unheeded, she suspected that surprise would be
one thing in her favor. With her small frame, wide hazel eyes, and straight
dark hair, she appeared young and delicate. She was young, but she was far
from delicate. Any attacker would likely not expect the defense she would
mount. Her father had always said she was sturdy in both body and spirit.
She wished it had not taken his death and the desperate turn of her life to
prove his assertions true.
She had spent years by her father’s side, honing her muscles lifting and
turning patients who could not do so for themselves, honing her mind under
his tutelage, learning anatomy and surgery and the details of all manner of
diseases. More recently, she had spent months under her landlady’s
watchful eye, pummeling a sack stuffed with old rags in order to learn how
to wield the cudgel.
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