A Timeless Romance Anthology: European Collection - Plot & Excerpts
Seven paces, sharp turn. Seven paces, back again.Lucky seven. His hands clenched at his sides. He wasn’t usually a man given to superstition, but just now he was in need of luck, or heaven’s blessings— a miracle.“Please God,” he said aloud for what was surely the hundredth time over the past eighteen hours. He didn’t often pray, but he promised he would from this day forth if God would grant him this one wish. He’d pray, give more to the Church— build a new chapel if that’s what was required. Anything for this one favor.Please save Mary.He didn’t ask for the child’s life to be spared as well. For a man known to breed misfortune as he did, that was too much to hope for. He’d feared for weeks that all would not go well as he’d watched Mary grow weary, as he’d seen the stress that carrying the babe was causing her. And now she’d grown so weak she couldn’t even cry out in her suffering. The past hour had been silent— worse even than the screams of agony that had preceded it.
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