Vadoma turned to Rex. “Your turn.”
Rex snatched a card from her grasp and grunted as he looked at it. “Hah,” he yelled, waving his card in the air. “Mine is a lizard. It means nothing.”
But Chase shook his head. Chase always had a grin and a quip at the ready. But not this time. His voice was deadly serious as he answered. “Not a lizard. See how it is the same color as the background. It’s a chameleon. You’ve chosen Camille.”
Then Chase stepped around him. “That leaves Adelaide.”
The youngest? Max straightened. Chase could not try to woo the youngest daughter. If she were anything like Lily, the poor girl was a fox at a hound hunt.
“Take your card anyway,” Vadoma moved the cards toward him.
He’d been reaching out his hand but he pulled it back again. “Why?”
“The card is the promise.” She moved closer, still holding the cards out to him.
“Whatever that means.” Chase grimaced but plucked a card from the deck. As he turned it over, Max could see a woman dressed in white, looking up to the sky. Chase let out a growl. “This isn’t anything. It’s not a name. Does it mean I’m the only one who won’t be successful? Adelaide is too virtuous.”
Max, no longer angry, put his hand on Chase’s shoulder. An eerie feeling of foreboding replaced any irritation he’d been feeling. “Adelaide means virtuous one.”
“Bloody hell,” Chase muttered. “What have I done?”
Indeed, Max looked down at his card again. He’d met Lily and resigned himself to never look upon her face again. She was everything he was not. What had Vadoma said about fate? He didn’t know about all that but he did know that she was still on his mind. Very much so.
And that he’d determined to never see her again. That was, until tonight.
“What if we don’t do it?” he muttered. “What if we lock ourselves in our homes and don’t come out? What if we just go about our lives?”
“You don’t have to do anything.” Vadoma closed up the rest of the deck she’d had fanned out and tucked them into the pocket of her dress. Then she made her way to the door. As she opened it, she looked back at them. “But you won’t avoid the cards. Your fate will find you.”
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