ShadowWolfe by Kathryn Le Veque

Author:Kathryn Le Veque [Veque, Kathryn Le]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medieval
Published: 2017-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

IN TRUTH, AVRIELLE had never seen her children so alive and eager for an excursion.

They were up before dawn, running about like wild animals, excited at the day to come. Avrielle had a time trying to dress them, struggling to corral the older two while the old nurse tended the infant. Even though Avrielle had only intended to bring her older children on the journey, there was some concern with an infant that would have to go all day without being fed were she to leave the child behind. There wasn’t a wet nurse to be found, at least not at this short notice, so Avrielle realized that she had to take the baby with her. As she focused on dressing her older children, she had the nurse bundle the baby up for the journey.

But she didn’t mind, to be truthful. The day had dawned clear and bright, making it a beautiful spring morning that was perfect for travel. Scott and his men were already waiting with a wagon and an escort party in the bailey of Canaan. Avrielle could see them from the window of the chamber that faced into the bailey and she immediately spied Scott as he moved around the party, pointing at things that could be improved upon or leaning on the wagon bed to test the wheels.

As the old nurse followed the children around, trying to warmly dress them against the cold spring morning, Avrielle stood at the window perhaps longer than she should have. She couldn’t seem to take her eyes from Scott as he moved around, dressed in mail and pieces of plate protection on his big arms, but his head was bare and his cropped blonde hair was glistening in the early morning light. He was quite enchanting to watch, the way he moved, and she felt rather scandalous spying on him as she was. She was a widow only these past few months and shouldn’t be thinking about another man.

But the truth was that she couldn’t help it.

She’d thought about Scott all night, dreaming of his square-jawed beauty and eyes that were hazel, almost a pale shade of green. She’d loved Nathaniel, that was true, but it was an adoration of a man who had been both a husband and a father to her in many ways. She was so very young when she had married him and Nathaniel had already been in his fiftieth year. He’d been married before, and for quite some time, to a fine woman who had never given him children.

Avrielle remembered that Nathaniel had barely waited a year after his wife died before he sought her hand, and she further remembered that he had bedded her day and night after they were married until she became with child. The man had clearly been eager to have a son and was thrilled when she became pregnant. Sophia had been born before they’d been married a year and Stephen three years later, and Nathaniel had been delighted beyond measure.

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