Lord of the Sky (The Executioner Knights Book 6) by Kathryn Le Veque

Author:Kathryn Le Veque [Le Veque, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Medieval, Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-08-05T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Juliandra knew he was around, somewhere, because he always seemed to be lurking.

Not that she minded.

Kevin was around somewhere because she could feel it. Two weeks with the man and she had come to the point where she knew his routine and could sense his mood within the first few words of a conversation. It was odd because she’d never had this kind of a rapport with anyone.

But she liked it.

The lightning she felt when she looked at him had turned into a smoldering burn. Every time she saw him, it burned in the pit of her belly. It was a thrilling sensation, making her the least bit giddy and she felt like a horrible person for it. She was here to do her duty and have her father released.

It was coming so she didn’t want to be released at all.

She rather liked it at Wybren with Kevin.

Still, she couldn’t remain. She knew that. Even if Kevin wanted to marry her, to which her giddy self would be more than agreeable, her father would never permit it. It was a disappointing thought, one of many thoughts on her mind these days.

She was a woman torn.

Juliandra had been out in the kitchen yard all day, boiling linens because there seemed to be an infestation of some kind in them, and in the entire keep. Every bed had bugs in it that bit and drew blood, so she put the servants on boiling everything, from the coverlets to the mattresses. Every chamber was being scrubbed with lye and then wiped down with cloths soaked in vinegar. If she couldn’t kill the bugs, then she would at least drive them away. It made for a very smelly keep.

Kevin had permitted her to bring on more servants over the past two weeks because Wybren was a large place and she needed the help to properly maintain it. Therefore, she had a small army of servants scrubbing chambers and boiling linens while still others were working in the kitchens, preparing the meals.

That had become her domain.

The majordomo, as it turned out, didn’t do much. He was left over from the last Lord of Breidden and he mostly yelled at people and then retreated into his chamber to drink, so at Juliandra’s recommendation, Kevin released the man from his service. That meant that Juliandra was now in charge of everything and, much as she did with The Neath, she ensured that Wybren was run most efficiently.

Among other things, that meant two meals a day were prepared, one at sunrise and one after sunset. The morning meals were usually the warmed-over remains of the evening’s meal, and the evening’s meal was always some kind of boiled meat or stew because it was easier to prepare plentiful food for the masses by making something that could be stretched by adding a little water, if needed.

On this night, they were having boiled beef, having butchered a cow from Wybren’s herd of hairy, long-horned cattle. Two big cauldrons were

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