The Lady Knight And The Dungeon by Sterling Rose

Author:Sterling Rose [Rose, Sterling]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: domestic discipline, historical, medieval, holidays, Twelve Christmas Storys, Anthology, Collection, Novella's, 16th Century, Snowstorm, Winter, Snowy Weather, Holiday Greetings, Romance, Forever Love, Single Woman, Bachelor, Adult, erotic, spanking, Anal Play, bdsm, short story, Christmas Magic, Captain, Mistletoe, Lady Knight, Dugeon Duty, Prisoner, Bounty Hunting, Similar Interests, Relationships, Best Friends, Executioner
Goodreads: 28224015
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

She was just… living another day of her life, when he was going to die. She thought of him and little else. How was she going to enjoy a family breakfast while he was sitting in the dark too anxious to eat?

How was she supposed to grin over gifts when he had already lost the most basic gift of freedom – when he was about to lose the ultimate gift of life?

Mother watched her like a hawk as she stumbled through the door.

In spite of a chilly hour spent guarding the chapel, her cheeks began to burn, and she was certain it was visible.

Mother, of course, hadn’t the faintest idea of anything. She had always had such strict oversight over her life… and now here she was, oblivious that her daughter had lost her heart in the most impudent way fathomable.

“How are you this fine Christmas morning, Sophie?” she asked, her eyes practically dancing.

For a minute, Sophia could only stare and in her muddled mind wonder whatever Mum could look so happy about when her heart would be crushed on the morrow. “I’m fine,” was all she could say, numbly.

Mum raised an eyebrow. “Oh? Did anything interesting happen during your guard shift, last night?”

Her stomach dropped. “Like what?” she almost snapped. How could anyone know anything?

“I don’t know. Something romantic?”

“Mum, what are you talking about?”

But at that moment the twins came scurrying down the stairs with squeals of glee, and her sister came stumbling after them, only half awake.

She numbly followed the chattering clan into the kitchen, and didn’t take the children’s side when Mum and Sarah insisted they wait until after breakfast to open presents. Nor did she dart over to the stockings and begin passing them out with her usual rapidity. She was the stocking stuffer of the family. Stockings were her domain.

“But Sophia can, of course, hand everyone their stockings,” Mother was saying.

“Hmm? Oh. Yes.” She passed them to everyone with a lack of enthusiasm that caused the entire family to watch her in befuddlement.

“Well then,” said Sarah. “Breakfast.”

As the sounds of the family eating a hearty breakfast clattered around her, she thought of him. She thought of him as she accepted a bar of lavender lotion from her mother, thought of him as Sarah gave her a necklace from which dangled a wooden bird and a brand new ink pen. She thought of him even as the twins presented her with coral-colored scarf and socks they had apparently put great thought into picking out.

“Sophia, you are beyond out of your head,” Mum said finally. “I wish you hadn’t taken that guard shift.”

Apparently, good old Rusty hadn’t told her the reason for that shift.

Rusty. Him.

She abruptly dropped the dainty dish she had been holding, and the chocolate-covered strawberries she’d carried into the room tumbled across the hardwood.

She suddenly wondered how much Mother knew about his silly half-baked plans. She hadn’t thought as much of him and his proposition as she should have…

Oh… that would explain her strange words and ways over the entirety of the morning.

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