Dark Prince by Eve Silver EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Eve Silver
- Language: English
- Genre: Gothic Romances
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Desperation made for a poor walking companion.
Jane Heatherington studied the horizon, dread gnawing at her with
small, sharp bites. The sky was a leaden mass of churning gray clouds that
hung low on the water, and the ocean pummeled the shore with a strength
that heralded the furor of the coming storm. Breathing in the tangy salt
scent of the sea, Jane clenched her fists, making the edges of the delicate
pink shell in her hand dig into the skin of her palm, grounding her as she
struggled to hold her misery at bay.
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Life was burdened by tragedy. Naive girl, to have believed that fate had
dealt out all her cruel jests years ago. Jane shook her head. No, not fate. She
could blame no one but the true perpetrator of this terrible thing that had
come to pass.
How much money?
Five hundred pounds.
Her own father had consigned them both to uncertainty and despair. Yet
fate was there too, lurking, laughing, playing her horrible game. Was not
Jane’s presence here this morning some act of chance?
Ill chance, to be sure.
Less than an hour past, as the cold, gray dawn had crawled into the
heavens, Jane had left her father’s hostelry, needing a few moments to
understand, to accept the terrible choices he had made, the dreadful
consequence he had brought down upon them. She had walked along the
beach, mindless of any destination, seeking only to calm her concerns and
fears. Fate had brought her here.
She shuddered, studying the two men who stood in the churning surf.
They waited as the waves carried forth a grim offering, a single dark speck
that dipped and swayed with each turbulent surge, growing ever larger,
taking on defined shape and macabre form.
Indeed, desperation made a poor walking companion, but death even
more so.
The dark outline floated closer, closer, discernable now as human,
facedown in the water with arms outstretched, long tendrils of tangled hair
fanning like a copper halo.
A woman, bobbing and sodden.
And dead.
Heart pounding, Jane took a single step forward as the men sought to
drag their gruesome catch from the ocean’s chill embrace. She was held in
thrall by the terrible tableau unfolding before her, and she swallowed back
the greasy sickness that welled inside her. ‘Twas not morbid curiosity, but
heart-wrenching empathy that froze her in place.
Most days, she could look at the ocean as a thing of great beauty.
Most days.
But not today.
Today there were disquieting clouds and churning surf and the icy kiss
of the mist that blew from the water’s surface to touch land.
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