Island of Glass by Kathryn Le Veque

Author:Kathryn Le Veque [Veque, Kathryn le]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B008CRVNL8
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Published: 2012-07-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

By the coming of the cold, gray dawn, they had not found Aubrielle’s attacker. They had several men in their possession that remotely fit the description, but none were exact. The frightened, gnarled group was herded into the vault to await their fate. Frustrated and exhausted from a fruitless night of the hunt, Kenneth waited until after sunrise to wake Aubrielle. He wanted to make sure they had exhausted all efforts before disrupting her. A sleepy-eyed lady appeared in the vault as the sun mounted the eastern horizon, but she could not identify any of the suspects.

The knights were sorry they had not been able to find her assailant. Everett was positively bitter about it. As brutal as the lady had treated him, still, he wanted to please her like a child constantly seeking parental approval. When Kenneth took Aubrielle back up to her chamber after failing to identify her attacker, the other knights regrouped to plot a fresh strategy with renewed determination; an attack on their lady while there were several healthy knights sworn to protect her was an attack on their honor. In a selfish way, there was more at stake than simply the lady’s safety. They were better than they had thus far demonstrated.

The only knight who seemed to not feel that way was Lucius. He had not been told about the search initially. He had woken to the noise of the search in the bailey and had proceeded to coerce young Max to tell him what was afoot. He had forced himself upon the search, but it was apparent that he was indifferent. Captain of Kirk’s forces or not, he had no stake in this. His stake had died with the earl. With Kenneth preparing to become the new lord and master, Lucius was fast retreating into his own world, one where he had no rank or position. And the more he retreated, the more dangerous he became.

No one was more aware of this than Kenneth. With the whirlwind of events over the past few days, he had thought to put it off sending the man along his way. In truth, he had hoped that Lucius would show a measure of strength and come to accept the change of events at Kirk. But the more he observed the man, the more obvious it became that he could no longer delay in carrying out his original plans. The sooner Lucius le Cor was out of the castle, the better for them all. Though apparently not tied to the assault against Aubrielle the previous evening, Lucius was nonetheless a credible and independent threat that could not be tolerated.

The matter of sending him away, however, meant confirming to Aubrielle who had initiated the first assault against her. Kenneth had thought to spare her the grief, but the decision to send the captain of Kirk’s forces away would rest on her more than any of them. Without official power and title, Kenneth could do nothing. Aubrielle would have to make the decision.

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