Knight's Caress by Vinet Lynette

Author:Vinet, Lynette [Vinet, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Published: 2013-07-18T21:00:00+00:00

“The king has humiliated me!” Guy shouted to Julianne when they were alone in her chambers. “Even now the preparations for this wedding banquet progress, and he has yet to tell me that he has turned over Amberlie to this—this pagan!” He held his head in his hands, his body trembling with rage. “Is the man mad, Julianne?”

Julianne impatiently tapped her fingertips upon the arm of the chair where she sat, swathed in black like a mother abbess. “Mad, no, but crafty is our king. Always he has resented your taking control of the knights after Henri’s death without his authority. And now, my silly brother, the king has struck at the heart of you with invisible arrows. Never did he intend to offer Amberlie to you as a bride. You’ve disgraced me and my son with your ridiculous request.”

“Henri is dead, deader than that damnable chair you’re sitting in! When are you ever going to forget that milksop of a boy you weaned?”

Clearly, that was the worst thing Guy could say to Julianne. She rose from her chair in a threatening cloud of black. “My son was a noble knight, more noble of spirit and pure of heart than you or any of your knights. He isn’t dead to me for he lives in my soul, my mind is filled with his face. Henri is more alive to me than are you. And as of this moment, you are dead to me.”

“Come now, Julianne, you don’t frighten me with your contempt, your disdain. The moment Amberlie marries Tedric you’re reduced to taking the Saxon’s charity. Amberlie will be mistress of Woodrose, and you’ll be nothing but a cast-off relation. You’ll have no value here.”

Julianne was irked by Guy’s accurate assessment of the situation, but she stilled her fears by glaring at him. “It appears you have less value than I, dear brother. After all, you asked the king for my son’s wife and were not given the courtesy of his reply. If our king thinks so little of you, then imagine how your enemy shall treat you when the king is no longer in residence at Woodrose.”

“Ah, Julianne, but you are a cold-hearted woman.”

“And you are an unprincipled conniver, but you are the only confidant I have. Never forget that we’re family, united by our common heritage.”

Guy’s voice was hoarse with frustration. “What will you do?”

“Nothing for now,” Julianne said, and sat back down. “But I will somehow, some way, avenge myself upon Tedric of Woodrose for my son’s death. And my son’s treacherous widow shall not escape my wrath unscathed.”

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