Eliza Knight - The Rules of Chivalry by A Knight's Victory

Author:A Knight's Victory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Eliza Knight
Published: 2012-12-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Wind whipped Elena’s locks around her head and her skirts around her feet. She leaned her head back to look at the night sky—black with a thousand tiny lights sprinkling its surface. The moon was just a sliver, like the tip of a fingernail.

Michael stood behind her, his hands rested on her hips and his lips nibbled gently at her neck. She leaned against him, secure in his comfort, secure in the weight and bulk of him. They were alone, not a guard atop this part of the parapets, and all around them the village slumbered.

“Thank you,” she murmured, leaning her head to the right so he might continue to kiss the length of her neck.

His hands slipped all the way around her waist and he held her close. “You needn’t thank me, Elena. The man is a monster.”

He took a deep ragged breath behind her. “I want to take you away from here. I want to do it soon.”

She took her gaze off the sky and looked down at the surrounding village. “Kent would go to the ends of the earth to find me—and kill me. You too. My ladies would be tortured if I were to leave. And you…it would only bring shame to you and your family.” She frowned. “I can’t leave the people. Who would tend to the sick? The starving? I am their mistress, and already they have a tyrant for a master. If I can ease their burden in just a small way, I have to.”

“Take your ladies with you then, we shall plan it so no one knows. The servants can well manage themselves.”

She shook her head. As much as she wanted to, she couldn’t. Too many people depended on her. To make matters worse, it would only ruin Michael’s life. He would be hunted down, and with the number of spies Kent employed, he’d be found. Already Kent suspected something. The king was likely to make Michael a titled man in his own right for his service as a knight, but not if he were to steal her away. Any future Michael had would be destroyed, and all because of Elena.

Michael’s broad chest expanded against her back with his heavy sigh. “At least think about it. I want to get you away from the man—he is an abomination to all things human.”

“I will think about it.” But she had no plans to contemplate it. Not now anyway. As much as her husband humiliated and hurt her, she would have to endure it awhile longer.

Michael turned her to face him, his fingers tracing the outline of her chin. His touch was gentle, so much so that she didn’t even wince when his fingers glided over her bruised cheek.

“I wanted to murder him tonight. I wanted to beat him to a bloody pulp.”

“I know.” She’d seen the look in his eyes.

“You saved him, you know.” His voice was filled with irony.

“How so?”

“When you walked into the great hall…” His forehead dropped to hers, and she could see in the faint moonlight that he’d closed his eyes.

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