Through Phantom Eyes
Volume Five - Christine
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Our voices faded into silence, but the performance continued on. Our clasped hands at our breasts were the only barriers preventing our bodies from closing the gap and embracing. I stood motionless, and, for the first time, I wasn't thinking if I should move away or continue with the emotions that had taken me over so completely. I was simply following a course designed millennia in the past by an irresistible force much more powerful than myself. My fingers felt the soft skin on the back of her hand, while my other hand pressed on the small of her back and registered her increased breathing. My eyes traveled the contours of her beautiful face and sensual lips. My breathing increased as I tilted my head and began to lower my lips toward hers. She responded perfectly, as if the artistic director on a rehearsal stage was coaching her every movement, also tilting her head, raising her chin, and blinking slowly. Then, as never before, I tried calling upon my learned self-control to prevent those urges as old as time from surfacing any further and taking over my actions completely.
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This is the pivotal volume. In it, Erik faces challenges both new and frightening when he encounters Christine, the woman fate has directed to his lonely heart. Just as a river changes the landscape of a country, Christine changes the course of Erik’s life.
The year is 1881, and the lonely man, Erik enters a period in his life when his full passion finds its true home in the form of the young chorus girl, Christine. Once he meets her, his obsession for her is fueled by his past years of distressing solitude, and she becomes the woman he loves and the woman he must have as his own.
His deformity is the first obstacle in the way if winning her love, but her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, is the bigger obstacle and the biggest challenge. He meets these challenges, while he also keeps his managers doing his will, which is to make Christine’s career a success. Erik works patiently to gain the trust and love of Christine, while, at the same time, he meets the challenge presented by Raoul’s youth and handsome appearance. Violent encounters are inevitable in any love triangle, but considering Erik’s past life and deformed emotions, the encounters become death-dealing.
About the Author
Theodora Bruns has been a music lover since childhood and has spent the last 10 years researching and writing about Erik, AKA, the Phantom of the Opera. This is the fifth volume in her award-winning eight volume set. She currently lives with one of her five daughters in Sacramento, California.