Cobweb Empire by Vera Nazarian

Author:Vera Nazarian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, death, history, fantasy, magic, historical, epic, renaissance, dead, bride, undead, historical 1700s, starcrossed lovers, starcrossed love, cobweb bride, death takes a holiday, cobweb empire, renaissance warfare
Publisher: Norilana Books

Percy awoke at dawn to a profound silence. The pallor seeping from the cracks in the shutters and under the door was a harbinger of a white winter world. The storm had passed and left in its wake a rare serenity.

The knight was awake, and was quietly adding new logs to the fire in the hearth, and indeed its gentle rising crackle was the only sound to intrude upon the silence.

She noticed he was fully dressed already, with his boots and leg pieces on, and the chain mail hauberk in place. He must have made trips outside without her knowing it, because there were a few more logs near the hearth than before.

She shuddered, because despite the relative warmth in the room, she was chilled, and his fine black cloak she had been using as a blanket was hardly adequate protection over a nightshirt alone. Her dress, winter shoes, socks and stockings were drying near the fire, for which she was grateful. But it was awfully embarrassing to consider that he had to handle them on her behalf—the whole poor threadbare smelly lot of them. The realization of it made Percy’s cheeks flame.

“Good morning . . .” she muttered, scrambling out of bed, and heading straight for her clothing, while trying not to meet his gaze directly.

“Good morning to you, girl,” he replied in a calm voice. “Hope you are well rested. There is snow in the pot ready to heat up, together with some bark I managed to procure. Nothing edible unfortunately, so it will have to wait once we get on the road.”

“How bad is it out there?” she whispered, thinking of the usual knee-deep drifts against the door back at home in Oarclaven, and the blanketed roads on the days after heavy snowstorms.

“Bad enough,” he retorted. “But none of it matters. We are going forward today, no time to waste.”

He finished stirring the kindling and then straightened. “I’ll wait for you outside while you dress.”

“Thank you, My Lord,” she replied hurriedly, clutching her clothing. “I will be quick!” Her entire face was flaming now.

“Take your time.” And he went outside.

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