The Black Rose by Diana Sweeney

Author:Diana Sweeney [Sweeney, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-07T06:00:00+00:00

Wilhelmina ended up crying herself to sleep and woke up the next day to the sun shining through her window. She blinked at the brightness as she crawled out of bed. When she stood up, she noticed she was still wearing the same lavender dress she was wearing yesterday. The memories of last night came back to her and she began to sob. Why did that have to happen?

Once she had managed to stop crying, she washed up and changed clothes before heading down for breakfast. She hoped Jerome had forgotten everything about last night and secretly prayed that it had only been a very bad dream. However, she could still feel his lips against hers and knew there was no use in denying what happened. Her lips had been tainted.

Wilhelmina took a deep breath to calm herself. She didn’t want to look as if she had been crying. She needed to act as if nothing had happened last night in case she did run into Jerome and Edolie. However, to her surprise, Milly was sitting at the dining table when she arrived instead of Edolie and Jerome. Wilhelmina hurried over to take a seat across from her friend as a maid quickly went to get her some breakfast.

Milly was not just an ordinary maid, so she had some special privileges, such as eating with the family and being allowed to attend balls. She also wore a different uniform than all the other maids. The other maids wore the traditional black dresses and white aprons, while Milly wore a red dress. She had a white apron that she only wore when working. Milly was older than Wilhelmina, but instead of acting like her nanny, she had been her dearest friend.

Milly smiled, “I finally got a break.” There was no way she could avoid Wilhelmina now. She also knew it was wrong of her to do so, after all it wasn’t Wilhelmina’s fault and avoiding her wouldn’t make the problem go away. In the end Milly just had to pretend that she never overheard the conversation in King Wilhelm’s study.

“So do you have the day off?” Wilhelmina asked as Milly finished swallowing down a piece of sausage.

“Unfortunately no,” Milly sighed, “I just have time to eat breakfast. Edolie’s freaking out because the wedding’s in two days. We’ve changed the decorations more than five times this week! I’m surprised she’s giving us time to eat!” Wilhelmina giggled. The maid then returned with a plate filled with sausage and eggs, and a glass of milk for Wilhelmina. She thanked the maid before returning her attention to Milly.

“So did you find anything in the library?” Wilhelmina asked as she sliced a piece of sausage with her knife.

“No,” Milly huffed, “There wasn’t a single other book that mentioned….” She stopped as she heard a shrill laughter, which was clearly Edolie and another deeper sounding laugh, which must have been Jerome. Wilhelmina swallowed her sausage as she turned to see Edolie and Jerome enter the dining room.

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