Prophecy by Caroline Noe

Author:Caroline Noe [Noe, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-02-16T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

General Klay pushed his breakfast around the plate in a state of excited apprehension. Lara Klay hadn’t been his wife for twenty years without being able to recognise his moods. She knew he was worried and that he would never discuss why. Not with her, anyway. She had learned the hard way how to live with his lack of emotional revelation. Whilst she screamed in agony and mourned through six miscarriages, Klay never shed a single tear or spoke one word of their loss. She often wondered if their childlessness mattered to him at all, or whether he even noticed her presence. She was too timid, and afraid of his answer, to ask.

“I have to go.”

As usual, Lara smiled to the back of his head. He never bothered to wait for her response. The door slammed shut with a bang.

Driving through the streets of a city already bustling in the cooler early morning, Klay decided to weather whatever was coming and remain head of the military, assuming he acted wisely in these dangerous next days.

As the new king of Elyacia, Brewan’s first official act, after removing Frayn from the Palace, was to summon the governing Council, including its Canellian advisors, Quaylan and Axil. Klay knew that Brewan, and that slimy friend of his, bore no love for the Canellians, probably stemming from jealousy rather than political motives. It remained to be seen how the young king would vent his wrath on his rival in love.

Klay snorted with derision. He had little time for those who wasted power on such fleeting emotional trivialities; however, should dislike turned to persecution, and the Canellians decide to make a fight of it, that was Klay’s business. Thankfully, he had personally seen to the build-up of arms within his military and the Elyacians had massively superior numbers.

Still, I wish we’d disposed of them while they were in space.

* * *

In the aftermath of lovemaking with Drel, Quaylan was unable to concentrate on his daily prayer ritual. The familiar words died in his mouth, guilt assaulting him at every turn. His abandonment of self-control left them both bereft, yet the pleasure of her body so filled his thoughts that he could almost sense her touch.

Why did I do it? To condemn her to loneliness without me? Am I that selfish?

He was frozen in a state of condemnation when Frayn interrupted his vigil. As every Canellian knew never to impinge on his private prayer, Frayn’s mere presence warned Quaylan that something serious had occurred. It turned out to be the news he dreaded; his benefactor was dead and the new king had banished his father’s former healer from the Palace.

Frayn delivered a simple message from King Brewan: Quaylan and Axil must immediately attend an emergency session of the Elyacian Council or “face the consequences.”

With a transport and guards waiting to take them to the Palace, Quaylan had no time to formulate his thoughts, let alone discuss the situation. He trusted that Frayn would inform Lis, Palaxa and Yix of unfolding events and place the camp on alert.

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