Templar's Destiny (9780545415095) by Black Kat

Author:Black, Kat
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Published: 2012-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

“How could ye bring her here?!” I railed at Gaston, who had appeared within the candle mark at the suite of the Templar.

“Keep yer voice down, Tormod,” the Templar warned. “The castle has ears in all places.”

“Where is she, Gaston?” I demanded, albeit a bit more quietly. Everything within me wanted to bolt down the hallways banging on doors until I found her.

“Aine is in the employ of the Princess,” he said somewhat reluctantly.

I gasped and even the Templar appeared shocked by the news. “How is that possible? Gaston, what have ye done?” The Templar’s tone was low and steady, but I knew that voice. Gaston had better have a very good answer.

“She was determined, Monsieur Alex. If I didn’t help, she would have tried to do it on her own somehow.”

“Tell me now,” he said.

“I followed Tormod and Aine to the inn when they left the Cochon Rouge. I knew that they would have need of my services and mamere was already angry with me, so I thought it would be better if I gave her a little time to cool.”

“She is no’ cool, Gaston. She is worried an’ she is here,” the Templar said.

Gaston turned paler than the white of his skin seemed capable. He shook his head and began to pace. “The mistress was most distressed when I arrived. Tormod had taken his pack and gone off, and she was at the inn alone.” He shot me a dirty look, which I at once took offense to. “She said that she must get to the palace and find the Princess. Though she would not tell me why, she was insistent. I thought perhaps she imagined that you had come here without her.”

“That’s ridiculous. I left her to find Bertrand. I had every intention o’ returning to the inn. Where is she now?”

“In the chambers of the Princess,” he said calmly. “I arranged for her position. She is my cousin Robert from my father’s lands to the west.” He seemed proud to have been of help.

“Yer cousin? A lad?” I asked, incredulous. “No one will believe that for a moment.”

“But they already do,” he said. “She is a favorite of the Princess.”

“This is a strange turn o’ events,” said the Templar. “Why would she do something like this?”

I told him then about the vision of the Princess that Aine and I had shared, then paced the room like a tethered animal. “We’ve got to get her out o’ there before she ruins our chance to save Torquil.”

“There is little hope of that. The Princess seems a bit taken by her,” Gaston said.

“Ye jest,” I scoffed. “Taken, as in attracted to her, as a lad?”

Gaston grinned and shrugged his shoulders.

The thought took a moment to sink in, then I found it oddly humorous as well. How could that possibly be in Aine’s plans? Gaston’s grin was contagious.

“This may actually work to our advantage,” said the Templar. “Can ye get a message to her, Gaston?”

“Aye. I work in the kitchen, and she has been assigned to carry up the meals of the Princess.

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