Eternal Envy (The Seven Sin Sisters 2)

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Erotic Romance

Eternal Envy

Copyright © 2012
Paloma Beck

E-book ISBN: 978-1-61885-
386-4

First E-book Publication: November 2012

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Edited by
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For Elaine –

You taught me I was special in my own right. I need not envy.

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THE SEVEN SIN SISTERS 2

Paloma Beck

Copyright © 2012

Chapter One

Eloise should be happy. Her sister had found her mate. But dammit, all she could focus on was how badly she wished it were her. The envy that she carried inside her heart had been reaching its boiling point as she watched her baby sister find her mate and fall in love. Now
Eloise stood with her sisters circling Madden and Anton
for
Layla’s Pronouncement Ceremony
,
and
oh,
how
Eloise
wished it were her own
!
She had dreamed of her
sposalizio
, her own Pronouncement Ceremony,
since she was just a small girl
;
the envy inside her began to swirl up and she
struggled
to force it down.
Fate seemed particularly cruel this time to give Layla her mate first
since
Layla wanted nothing to do with a mate while Eloise could dream of nothing more wonderful.

Eloise
smoothed
the front of her dress as she watched her mother and father, together since her mother had turned just eighteen
years
old,
beaming at one another
so happy. Her mother
appeared
her
usual
regal self, draped in a gauzy moss green dress, with her father standing tall and strong beside her. He was a man so powerful; his presence had always been such strength to Eloise and her sisters.

Eloise heard her sisters’ giggles
,
but
she was
so used to having them inside her head, she ignored them.
She opted instead to send
one last thought
to
her sister before
Layla
was fully mated, “I so wish I was you.”

Once the ceremony ended, the families
shared
a meal in the vineyard. Eloise needed time to herself for even
just
a few moments and found herself wandering the vineyard
along
a path moving away from the lights of the homes on the property. An isolated building stood beyond this hillside, set slightly lower and out of sight. Curious, Eloise wandered in that direction when a shadow moved towards her from the distance. It was
the
large shadow of a man,
she could tell from the bulk of his shoulders, the marched step of l
ong
legs.