Les fils de la pleine lune tome 1.5
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- Eileen Wilks (Écrivain)
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Chapter 1
Helen?
Too dignified. l've never been terribly dignified.
Rachel?
A pretty name... it didn't feel right, though. I wasn't in the mood for Rachel. I paused, digging my toes into the sand. Overhead the sky was clear, its black dome fuzzed by the lights ahead. Galveston isn't large, but tourists like that's lively at night. I do, too, but prefer to live outside the city proper.
Beside me the great, briny mother was in a quiet mood, her waves lapping at the sand like curled cats' tongues. That made me think of my neighbour, Mrs Jenks - a nice woman, but with no talent for naming cats. She had three. The one she called Mona was a particular favorite of mine, sleek and black, who referred to herself as Wind-Who-Leaves-Grasses-Silent. Quite a mouthful in English, I'll admit.
Well, what about Mona? A better name for a woman than a cat.
No, it was too close to Molly, which was my current name. I'd be forever signing checks wrong,.
I sighed and started walking again. Walking in sand is good for the calf muscles. Doing it at night with the ocean whispering beside you is good for soul.
I'll admit to being vain about mil legs. Otherwise I'm on the nice side of average, with my weight holding steadily at fashionable-plus-fifteen and a thoroughly Irish face, complete with freckles and a pug nose. More motherly than cute these days, I suppose; I let my hair go white several years ago. But my leg are still excellent.
Not that I was out walking for the sake of my muscle tone tonight. My claves were in better shape than my soul.
Self-pity is so wearing. unattractive, too. Really, I needed to settle on a name. It was time to move on. Just last night Sam had commented again on how I never seemed to change.
Dear Sam. I sighed again. I would miss him. And several of the others, too, and Galveston itself. I loved the historic section and the view, breakfast at The Phoenix and seafood at Gaido's. I lived so closed to the ocean that the salt-and-sea scent drifted in my window, and I could indulge in the private splendor of walking the beach at night...
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Les fils de la pleine lune tome 1.5
- USA : 2004-07-01 (English)
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Cette petite histoire est une partie de l'anthologie Berkley, CRAVINGS, qui mettra en vedette Laurell K. Hamilton. Il est situé dans le même monde que "Only Human", mais le héros et l'héroïne de celui-ci sont encore plus rare. Prenez Molly, par exemple. Elle ne fait pas son âge, où les créances de son permis de conduire est de cinquante. En fait, Molly a des souvenirs pas si bons souvenirs de tour-de-la-siècle à Londres - le tournant du XIXe siècle, ce qui est. Mais c'est parce que Molly est un succube. "Pas un démon», insiste t-elle. «Je suis maudit, pas démoniaque."
Lorsque Molly tombe sur un jeune homme magnifique avec une mémoire défaillante qui est poursuivi par des gens très effrayant, elle ne peut pas résister à lui donner un coup de main. Mais il n'est pas plus ce qu'il semble que ce qu'elle est. Ils doivent résoudre l'énigme de son origine avant son passé - ou le sien - les rattrape.
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