Authors: Renee Miller
Bayou Baby (25 page)
Though still frighteningly small, Celestine showed her mother’s fierceness of spirit, surviving despite her tragic early birth. Her strange violet eyes took in everything, and she gurgled happily when someone was kind enough to hold her. Henri stared down at the red haired infant in Justine’s arm. She blinked at him and waved a tiny hand. The moonlight caught the copper hues of the tiny curls that framed her little face, and cast an eerie glow over her pale skin. She was enchanting; he could stare into those eyes for hours and now understood how Lucien might have believed her to be a witch. Indeed, she cast a spell over all who saw her.
“Time to begin again,
ma petite
cherie
,” he cooed.
Celestine frowned, her brow furrowing, so like Rowan that Henri’s breath hitched in his chest. He missed her, but realized now, after spending months at the camp with Justine and his daughter, that they’d never have made it together. Rowan was not meant to be someone’s mistress, nor someone’s wife. Her independent streak and her fiery soul would not allow such domesticity. And Henri could not have endured her constant rebellion.
“It’s over,” Justine sighed as the ship pushed away from the dock and the lights of New Orleans moved away from them.
“It’s just beginning.” Henri smiled.
THE END
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Renee Miller lives in Tweed, Ontario. Bayou Baby is her ninth published novel. She’s a control freak with poor self-control, an addiction to cake and potato chips, and has inappropriate fantasies involving Kevin Spacey.
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