Brides With Blades by Kathryn Le Veque

Author:Kathryn Le Veque [Veque, Kathryn Le]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Medieval, romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Meadery

St. Agnes

By the time Samarra reached St. Agnes, her head was killing her and she wasn’t feeling very well in general, but at least her confusion had left her for the most part. Now, she was thinking clearly and the biggest thing on her mind was the powerful knight who was riding ahead of her.

She’d been watching that silver-arsed horse for the better part of an hour and a half, hypnotized by the swaying of the beast as she relived every single moment of her life since the moment she first met Rhodes de Leybourne. She remembered thinking when she first met him how he was different from any man she’d ever met, how he treated her differently and with a kindness she’d never before known. A knight of his caliber had every reason to treat her like dirt, because she was in a sense. Her family name had meant something, once, but it didn’t any longer. Now, the name le Brecque stood for cutthroats and thieves. It was something that had never concerned Samarra until now.

Until she met Rhodes.

Now, she was in a world of confusion and misery – confusion over who she was and what she’d become in life, and misery over meeting a man she could never hope to have. As their small group entered St. Agnes and came to a halt at a large tavern called The Meadery, Samarra was simply going through the motions. She didn’t even really know why she was here. If Rhodes didn’t want to leave her, then perhaps she needed to leave him simply to keep her dignity intact. She would send his father’s money back to him without an explanation. Samarra never believed there was a job she couldn’t handle but, in this case, Rhodes de Leybourne proved to be too much, on many different levels.

The Meadery was a two-storied establishment that was the biggest one in the village, but the structure was an oddity. The ground level was a massive common room with a wooden floor because a second level, a sub-ground level, had been dug below it into the side of the hill that The Meadery was situated upon. There were more people down in the sub-level and there were also sleeping rooms there, dug like caves into the side of the hill.

It was a loud, unusual place, smelling of smoke and of the earth that comprised the floor and walls of most of the structure. Rhodes had Samarra by the arm as he led her into the establishment, her men drifting in behind them.

At midday, the tavern was about half-full so they had their choice of tables for the most part. As Rhodes pulled Samarra over to a table near the only window in the entire place, he turned to her men and pointed to another table that was nearby. It was clear that Rhodes wanted to be alone with Samarra, and her men reluctantly did as the big knight indicated. Settling down at another table several feet away, they immediately began calling for the tavern wench.

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