Chapter 24

He would not use her name. Even after every tactic she had employed, he stubbornly would not use her name. Amelia knew it was important. His resistance made it so. If it wasn t important to him not to use it, then he would do so. The fact that he wouldn t, mean that she had to make him. She had upped the stakes by allowing the conception to occur, now she had to win the war. Her breath hung before her like smoke and her feet froze in the delicate slippers that were not meant to wander through snowdrifts, but she had a mission in the garden, a new tactic to employ. She used her power to short-out the devices that the woman had flung around the garden. Amelia was not entirely sure of their purpose, but she suspected they were surveillance. The woman had obviously not anticipated the vagaries of the weather in the area, snapping from winter sunshine to snow in a matter of days and driving Amelia and Rikash from spending lazy afternoons on the roof, to spending their time u