Fair Peril
“By all the gods and little red devils, how joy to fill a million hearts ensouled that one simple word. Free! She set me FREE. How the power had filled him, the power of a paradise of angels in her kiss. With awe, adoration, joy, Adamus gazed upon her as she sent the mechanical chariot scudding at dizzying speed through the night. Such power. This, then, at last, was his fated princess. Princess Emily. How beautiful she was in the half-light that kept flashing past from the tall lamps. Up until the moment she had lifted him in her hands, when the touch of her soft lips had flashed through him like lightning and turned him inside out, up until that moment he had not known, he had not understood—she had been just the daughter to him, the pale shadow, the second choice. His focus had been all on the mother, the thunder woman who fascinated and appalled him. But now— She felt his gaze and glanced at him, the soft contours of her face shaky in the changing light.
“Princess Emily,” he said, ...his voice shaky also.MoreLess
“Princess Emily,” he said, ...his voice shaky also.MoreLess
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