Fire in the Blood

blowing through it.
She was aware as she did so that

She could feel the flames flickering again within herself, moving up from her breast to her lips.

It was the fire that raced in her blood and which Selene had been right in saying was something their father had given them.

It was a fire, which was not only very human, but also Divine.

Then, being afraid to think of the future, she tried to concentrate on the pictures she saw in the dining room and the books that were in the Earl’s library.