The Portal 00 - Legacy of the Witch

over.
    “Don’t worry, child,” Merry told her. “Don’t you worry at all.
I know your family have been the keepers of this box for a long, long time now.
Well, I belong to a long line of keepers, too. Secret keepers. We’ve had lots of
secrets entrusted to us since this university was inaugurated back in
eighteen-sixty-eight. And we know well how to keep ’em safe. Trust me on that
now.”
    And she winked and she twinkled, and knew the girl saw it. Then
she tucked the box under some towels in her cart and walked away.
    * * *
    As we watched the old woman go, I felt the most intense
feeling of relief. As if a huge burden had been lifted from my shoulders. I
turned to my Harrison and said, “We did it. We actually did it.”
    He wrapped his arms around me and held me close to him. “I have
the feeling there’s not much we couldn’t do together, Amarrah.”
    “I have the same feeling,” I told him.
    “Lilia said it would be another twenty years, if all went well.
I hope I get to see them again.”
    “I hope to be right by your side when you do,” he said softly.
“What do you think my chances are?”
    I looked up at my beloved and smiled. “We’ve been together for
three thousand, five hundred years, one way or another,” I said. “What’s another
twenty?”
    He kissed me then, and I knew we would be together forever,
lifetime after lifetime, and beyond.
    * * * * *
    Look for Indira’s story in MARK OF THE WITCH , Volume One of “The
Portal,” the new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne, available in October from Harlequin MIRA
wherever books are sold.

Don’t miss the rest of The Portal series, coming soon from Maggie Shayne and MIRA Books:
    Mark of the Witch
    (October 2012)
    Daughter of the Spellcaster
    (December 2012)
    Blood of the Sorceress
    (February 2013)

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