Fatal Throne by Candace Fleming

Author:Candace Fleming
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

HAMPTON COURT

24 October 1537

I am so thirsty. A single droplet of water would suffice. No, this isn’t true. I could drink the River Thames for want of a drop of water. “Please,” I murmur, unable to find the strength to speak above a whisper. This fever now steals my voice. My mind, too, for in the nighttime, when the chills and pain overtake me, I feel I am somewhere else, long ago. Perhaps in the gardens of my childhood home, my precious Young Lady Garden. I’m not quite sure where real and unreal begin and end. The pain begins as a sudden throb in my womb, then radiates throughout my body, and I cannot stop shivering.

I will never see my darling boy again. This I know. And when that thought enters my mind, I know I’ve fully returned to what is real and true. I sinned against Anne Boleyn, and now it is my turn to die. I tried to make up for what we did with better deeds. To no avail.

The pain in my belly becomes a blinding flash in my head, in my heart. My baby. He is lost to me. My king, my husband is lost to me. All is lost to me. My heart shatters.

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