Dowry's Punishment by C.C. González

Author:C.C. González [González, C.C.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Libro Confuso
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Eleanor had never seen such a large gathering in her life. To think that the townspeople were there because they wanted to be let in on the gossip, the news. They had seen it.

They had seen when Father Neil arrived with Cassius and a prisoner followed by guards. As soon as their eyes fell upon the prisoner, the whispers began. They started with a low hum that turned into an incessant and annoying buzz that trickled into Eleanor’s ears as she and Larkin stood at the end of the mob.

The voices of the throng waved around them, wondering.

Who was that?

That looked like that Alexander lad.

You sure? It looked like a woman dressed in men’s attire.

Wait. No. I am sure that it was Alexander Dowry.

I saw him just a couple of weeks back with his wife.

I did too!

It made Eleanor’s stomach turn; as her will to stop listening to the whispers was not enough, she turned her gaze to Larkin. He and Eleanor followed Father Neil closely until they all arrived in town. Now, she clung to him for dear life as his eyes stared forward, trying to look beyond the mass, imagining what was happening to Alexandra.

Eleanor could see the hidden desperation in his teary eyes, and she tried to be strong for both of them… for all of them, for Alexandra. But she felt a string in her heart being pulled and tugged savagely.

“She is going to be alright,” Larkin whispered. “She is a tough woman; we know that.”

Eleanor didn’t acknowledge his words; instead, she moved forward before noticing the stage that had been put to display. As she looked out, she calculated how to get to Alexandra and where to run.

As soon as she saw the groups of guards enter the stage, her heart dropped. Her plan wasn’t going to work now, was it? Eleanor was going to see her lover perish in the hands of a man that claims to represent God on Earth. She was going to sit and be a witness of how Alexandra’s life was slowly taken out of her. Hundreds of people that didn’t know would judge Alexandra as she was punished.

Eleanor felt her shoulders drop. What was she going to do? Go back to her mother’s? She felt as if a bucket of cold water was thrown over her body. Her mother… What was her mother going to think?

Larkin instinctively placed a hand over Eleanor’s shoulder and stared out to the stage. That’s when he saw him…

Eleanor felt how the tall man tensed up against her. She looked up at him and saw his eyes wide open and shivering in fear. She looked over and past the endless heads of the crowd and saw a large man dressed in black.

“The hangman…” she whispered before shuddering. “Is she… going to be hung?” Eleanor thought the worst.

“No. It cannot be.” Larkin whispered as he shook his head in disbelief.

Eleanor kept on staring at the man’s actions. He walked across the stage and then back as if he were looking for something.

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