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Chapter Twenty-Three: Adar
“She’s recovering. She’s going to live,” I said.
Fawna, lying on the sofa in her unconscious state, had drawn in a very deep breath. Then she began breathing heavily, heaving almost. Then her eyelids fluttered, and her hands moved.
Her cheeks went rapidly from chalky to the lightest pink.
I knew, almost intuitively, that she was recovering.
My prayers are being answered.
As this thought went through my mind and I said an inner “Thank you” to the Deity, her eyes opened.
She turned her head to look at me.
“Adara?” she said weakly.
“Yes, yes!” I exclaimed. I turned to Dane, “Fetch the doctor immediately.” I barked out the order to him, but this was no time for etiquette or decorum.
The servant who had brought in our tea tray had been lingering in the corner ever since, and Dane stood up and dispatched him to go upstairs to get the doctor.
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Miraculously, Fawna emerged from her unconscious state.Adara was incredibly relieved to hear Adara speak to her and say her name.We immediately called the doctor from his nap. He rushed into the room, still doing up the buttons of his shirt, and sat down by the girl’s side. Her gave her a little brandy and a full glass of water, and after examining her, he turned to us and pronounced the words that brought relief to us all:“She’s out of the woods.”However, he insisted that she not be moved far from her present place on the sofa. Edin said the downstairs maid’s room could accommodate her for a few days, and he dispatched a servant to evict the maid and prepare the room for Fawna. I’m sure Edin was thrilled that Fawna would be spending a few days—and nights—under his roof.I would have felt the same had I had that opportunity with Adara.I was impressed with the kindness Adara had shown her s
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My sister would survive.I don’t think I’d ever been happier.Ecstatic was the word, really.When the doctor said the blessed words, “She’s out of the woods,” it was as if the heavens had opened, and a golden beam of light had shined down upon me.After the doctor finished examining her, it was decided that she would remain with Edin there at Seaview. As our host, he very graciously dispatched the servants to prepare a downstairs bedroom to accommodate her, and when other servants came to carry her into it, Edin and I accompanied them as they bore the couch and my reclining sister into a maid’s room.I watched Edin. He’d only met Fawna a few hours earlier, but it was obvious—from his attentiveness, his body movements, the look on his face, etc.—that he had fallen in love with her.Love at first sight does exist, after all.For her part, Fawna appeared rather indiffer
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Adara decided she’d return home that evening.Edin said she was welcome to stay, of course, but she replied that her mother would be concerned with both girls gone and no explanation. Edin offered to send a servant with that explanation, but Adara adamantly refused.Knowing that her mother could be irrationally nervous and anxious, I understood. It would be bad for Mrs. Huntington to learn of Fawna’s ordeal from someone outside the family. Adara, in deciding to go home, was making the best decision, and I approved.What I didn’t approve of was the way she seemed to be trying to sneak away into the gathering darkness.I had just finished showing Doctor Hendricks to the door after our chat. I was halfway into the salon when my Lupine ears detected footsteps, Adara’s footsteps. She was treading up the hall from the maid’s room that had been turned into Fawna’s recovery room, and was quietly making for the door.I st
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We left Seaview in silence, Dane and myself.Having been all but coerced into letting him walk me home, I had nothing to say to this man who would not take no for an answer.I badly wanted to be alone. I was exhausted from the day’s ordeal. After all, I’d almost had see my sister die. Indeed, I had, as far as I’d known at the time, watched her dying before my very eyes.I wanted to be by myself to process the day’s event.And I knew what lay ahead of me:Father’s interrogation about Fawna, with me having to answer question after question after question for an hour, if not longer.And worse, Mother’s hysterics at every answer, crying out in shrill tones, perhaps even fainting or pretending to, as a way of demonstrating her love for her family as well as her tenderheartedness and her “nerves.”I couldn’t bear any of this without some “alone time” to prepare myself.
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Could it be that she desired me too?I asked myself this question, and yet, being a wolf, I moved forward in my passion.Of course, being a gentleman, had she said “Stop” I would have stopped.But she didn’t say “Stop.”In contrast, everything about her behavior said, “Continue.”She willingly and ardently gave in to me. Far from crying out, even as I inflicted pain on her with my fingers squeezing and pinching her nipple. Indeed, this pain seemed only to increase her ardor. She moaned in ecstasy; her moans were suppressed only by the pressure of my mouth on hers.By all these signs, she communicated that she wanted me as much as I wanted her.Meanwhile, being a wolf, I was, of course, overcome by my lust.Making love is difficult for Lupines in human form. In wolf form, wolves are so violent with their passions during love making that it’s not unusual for one to kill the other&md
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I’m not sure why, but it seemed we had little to say to each other after we had sex together.We stood quietly for a while, among the trees in the afterglow, catching our breaths after the experience of making love.It had been magnificent for both of us.I’d held back long enough for her to climax, and then I’d released, pounding into her and shuddering with ecstasy.Now we stood together, still pressed against the tree, both panting a bit from the exquisite delight of the experience. A light breeze stirred the night air, blowing the pleasant and clean scent of pine trees in our direction, as owls and other nightbirds called out in the woods—perhaps because they sensed a wolf was nearby.I kissed the top of Adara’s head. Then I pulled away and dressed, quickly pulling on my trousers.She, meanwhile, was trying to arrange her clothes, and doing a poor job of it. I managed to keep from laughing, and I moved to he
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Lantac Golgor—such a charming man!I slipped around the side of the house to the back door. Because I’d seen a guest in the living room, my strategy was to enter through the back door, call my mother into the little breakfast nook off the kitchen, and there tell her about Fawna.I knew she was likely to become upset, and I didn’t want to cause the ruckus that was bound to result from her hysterics. I especially didn’t want that kind of disruption to happen in front of a guest.As soon as I closed the door behind me, I heard my mother’s voice ringing through the house. “Adara? Fawna? Is that you?”I hesitated, then answered. “Yes. Mother, can you come here a moment, please?”“What on earth for, you silly goose? You come here. Come into the living room. We have a visitor whom I’d like you two to meet.”“Of course. But first, I need to talk to you.”&ldqu
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