Dark Destroyer (De Wolfe Pack Book 6) by Kathryn le Veque

Author:Kathryn le Veque [Le Veque, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Medieval
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Published: 2015-12-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Linley Manor

6 miles east of Hyssington

“I knew it was de Wolfe!” Linley screamed. “I knew it was him!”

In the only habitable room of Linley Manor, the great hall that had known grander days, the big, heavy-set drunkard known as Lord Linley was in a rage. His daughter, weeping, had finally confessed the father of her six-month-old son and, devastated, told her father that the knight refused to marry her. Now, Linley was in a rage and there was no way to stop it.

“Papa, please,” Helene wept. “I do not need your anger. I need your help. Will you not help me?”

Linley, who had been stumbling around the room in his rage, came to a halt and threw up his hands. “What is it you expect me to do?” he nearly screamed at her. “If the man refused to marry you, all I can do is kill him! I will challenge him and I will kill him! It is a matter of family honor now!”

Helene shook her head. “Papa, no,” she insisted. “He is a knight, one of the most powerful on the Marches. He will kill you!”

Linley was inflamed by what he considered slander against his skill and, in a rage, he rushed at his daughter and slapped her several times across the face as she screamed. In her struggle to get away from him, she ended up falling backwards over her chair, ending up on the dirty floor and crawling away.

“Silence your foolish mouth, girl!” Linley said, trying to kick her as she crawled away. “When you named your son Wolfe I should have known. You told me it was because you liked the name but I knew better. I knew Gates de Wolfe had somehow managed to steal your innocence but now that you have confirmed it to me, I will kill the man, I swear it!”

Sobbing, Helene was over by the wall, huddled in a fearful ball. “Mayhap you will not have to kill him if you can convince him to do the honorable thing and marry me,” she said, wiping the mucus from her nose with the back of her hand. “Mayhap he will change his mind if you ask.”

“You already said he refused!”

She nodded, wiping at her eyes, hoping he didn’t charge her again and try to slap her. “He did,” she said, sniffling. “But… but should you approach his liege, mayhap it would be different. De Lara can command Gates into marriage or punish him!”

Linley pondered that a moment, coming to an unsteady halt. He was weaving unsteadily, the result of drinking cheap ale that had been made from grain with mold on it. It had a tendency to make him see things that weren’t there and give him horrible nightmares. But when one was dependent upon drink, one was not too particular where one got it from.

“Mayhap,” Linley agreed, scratching at his louse-ridden head. “I will see de Lara, then, and demand he force de Wolfe to marry you. It is the

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