Felicity tangled her hands in the folds of her skirt and shifted again on the wooden bench as her eyes stared at her shoes but her eyes kept shifting over to the dark stranger sitting mere inches from her. He had asked her to join him in a walk and she had never have guessed that something as simple as a walk would have been so exciting. Her mind couldn’t register any thought. She knew that the polite thing was to attempt to start some kind of conversation but it seemed that whenever he came near him the population of butterflies in her stomach would take flight and she would be at a loss of words. However he never seemed to mind since he was able to find an interesting topic easily. He told her about the land he came from, what his castle was like and so on. She could only sit and listen not only to the words that he said, but to the richness of his voice itself.
Marcus had to smile as he watched as his fiancée desperately tried not to make eye contact with him and found it amusing that whenever she did look at him her face would turn red and she had to look away again. He was glad that he had listened to his trusted wizard and had traveled so far from his homeland to claim his bride. This time tomorrow they will have been wed and on the road to his country and he was sure that his family would accept her. He had had very little time to explain his situation to his brother. Marcus smiled at the remembrance of his brothers’ face when he told him that he was leaving to find his future wife. Although Kane was shocked at the sudden decision, he trusted his brother in any decision he made and wished him good luck.
Marcus again looked down at Felicity and sighed. The wizard had told him that a force not yet known to them would bring danger upon not only them, but their kingdom as well. Marcus wasn’t happy knowing that the future held trouble for him and his future bride but if it was written to be that way, then so be it. Although he had not told Felicity what the wizard had told him, he had a strange feeling that she already knew.
Copyright 2000 by Lady Serria