Fearsome Brides by Kathryn le Veque

Author:Kathryn le Veque [Veque, Kathryn le]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, medieval, romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

Kennington House

Oxford South

Kennington House had been built the previous century and had come into the de Lara clan through marriage. It had originally been a de Vere property those years ago and the de Veres had spared little expense for it; a very large and lavish hall was attached to a two-storied secondary building that contained four smaller chambers on the bottom floor and a massive, master’s chamber on the upper floor. The house itself was shaped like a “T”, with the window of the master’s chamber facing the church across the road because the pious de Veres liked it that way.

In the smaller chamber on the ground floor, Courtly sat on a simple, oak chair, working on a piece of embroidery that wasn’t her own. Her aunt, Lady Ellice, had given it to her when they had arrived at Kennington House earlier that day and had told her to finish it. The woman had given her and Isadora no greeting other than to hand them projects to complete, for her attention was fully on her younger brother, Kellen, and the distinct distaste they had for one another. A childless spinster, Ellice had no patience for children or even for people in general. She was a bitter, nasty shrew.

Therefore, while Ellice and Kellen went through the motions of a stiff greeting as Kellen explained the reason behind their arrival at Kennington, Courtly and Isadora disappeared into the house and into the small bedchamber they usually slept in during the times they had visited. Neither girl wanted to be around their father and aunt when the conversation turned nasty, which it usually did fairly quickly. It had, for as long as the girls could remember, an underlying hatred and bitterness from Ellice towards her brother, although that underlying hatred had never been explained. It was simply the way of things.

As Courtly sat on the chair, in a linen surcoat that smelled of smoke, working on the small piece of embroidery that was a hummingbird upon a flower, she could hear her father’s agitated voice and Ellice’s low, threatening one, both of them still out in the small courtyard. She sighed heavily as she listened. She didn’t understand how siblings could not get on with one another and it was like this every time they visited.

“Shall we stay here with Auntie now that our lodging has burned?” Isadora asked. She had a pair of Ellice’s stockings in her hand and had been commanded to sew a hole in the heel. “Court, I do not wish to stay here. I do not like staying with Auntie in the least.”

Courtly looked at her younger sister. At eleven years of age, Isadora was a frail, delicate thing. She was also quite smart and quite vocal, which could get her into trouble at times. With light brown hair and her sister’s big, blue eyes, she looked like a little, porcelain doll, and Courtly was the only mother she had ever known. Given that the girls’

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