AN ETERNAL LOVE

CHAPTER: 29

Alex Davies offered Aunt Helen his arm. She took it, and he offered the other to Adira.

Adira was reluctant to accept. But people were watching. And more than ever, she was cautious. She sensed something... something that made the fine hairs on her nape bristle. But she could not name what that something might be. She took his beefy arm and tried to hide her distaste.

"I vow," Aunt Helen said, "nothing so exciting has happened in Sanctuary... since my dear niece arrived and restored me to health."

"It was the Lord that restored you to health, Aunt Helen," Adira said quickly and glanced at Alex Davies from the corner of her eye. "I only took away your loneliness." To Alex Davies, she said, "I do believe it was the loneliness making her feel so poorly all along."

"Indeed," he said. Lifting his brows he asked, "And are you a physician, Ms. Thompson?"

Adira's blood ran cold, and for a moment it was as though she was back in England, shivering outside the magistrate's door while cruel hands held her fast, and a demanding voice asked a similar question to her mother.

Adira blinked away the rush of fear that shot through her and reminded herself she was no longer in England. That nightmare was behind her. And then she prayed it was true.

Mr. Davies, surely you are joking. I would

leading up into the church, he pretended to stumble and leaned toward her, brushing his forearm

warm hands closed on her shoulders, and suddenly she felt light-headed and breathless. His scent touched her, embraced her,

familiar voice with a sweet Scottish lilt said from behind

had embraced her to the point of madness, made her want him as she had wanted no other. The man who had told her he had given

away from her, but she barely felt his presence anymore. "A damn pebble caught in

Thompson?" Damien whispered, wide-eyed

he revealed what he had seen on those English gallows if he

but kept roaming it as if he could not believe what he was seeing. Panic caused her heart to pound loudly. Panic... and his touch. His thumbs moved in gentle circles on the back of her hands. She squeezed his fingers to remind him, and stared into his brown eyes, willing him to keep her secret. And then, reluctantly, she tugged

than enough to bring about such changes. He was larger, broad across the shoulders and chest,

probing brown eyes, she was the same. She had not

another?" Alex Davies asked, stepping closer, eyeing Damien,

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