The Master of Medicine (The Secret Healer Series Book 2) by Ellin Carsta

Author:Ellin Carsta [Carsta, Ellin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503943988
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2017-03-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Who have you been working with? Who picked up your pal Christopeit? Tell me right now!” Johannes pounded his fist so hard against the wooden door that it clattered. “Otherwise, I swear to you, I will order the archbishop’s guards to come in here, and then I will leave and lock the door behind me. When I return, I’ll be able to wipe up what’s left of you with a damp cloth.”

“But, my lord . . .” Benedict sat on the filthy floor, pressing his hands against the sides of his head. “I already told you! I wasn’t with this Christopeit, and I didn’t pick him up!”

“You are willing to lose your life for a traitor,” Johannes concluded. “Is the payment so great that you would deceive the archbishop and ally yourself with such treachery? Give me his name!”

Benedict ran his hands over his face. “I haven’t done anything, and I don’t know why you’re accusing me. The archbishop is my employer. I have always been loyal to him.”

“What about your family?”

Benedict sat upright with a jolt. He stared at Johannes. “My family?”

“As far as I know, you have two sisters who serve two good households. What do you think would happen to them if they were brought here by order of the archbishop, whom I represent, to be interrogated? I could have a nice little discussion with their masters about you being suspected of treason. What do you think their employers would do with them then?”

“You can’t do this, my lord.”

“Oh, indeed, I can. And I will if you don’t confess immediately.”

“But I can’t confess,” Benedict shouted at the top of his lungs, “because I haven’t done anything!”

“You were seen, my dear fellow. You and your cronies. There’s a witness.”

Benedict looked up. His eyes were bloodshot. “Then the witness is wrong. Or he’s lying. I don’t know, my lord! Please keep my sisters out of it! They haven’t done anything.”

“Where did you go with Christopeit the night after Bartholomäus’s murder? And who were your companions?” Johannes felt as though he’d already asked the same question a hundred times. It had become a sort of chant he could recite backward and forward.

“I wasn’t at the vicar’s house,” Benedict answered exactly as he’d already done so many times.

“Then it seems that your sisters’ fates are sealed.” Johannes stood up.

“No, my lord, please. I beg you. I’ll confess. I’ll confess to whatever you want.”

“What took you so long?” Johannes crossed his arms in front of him. “Who were your companions?”

“I don’t know them, my lord.”

The attorney raised his eyebrows. “And you expect me to believe that?” He sighed. “And who contracted you to do this?”

“A stranger. I don’t know his name.”

“What are you doing, boy?” Johannes shook his head. “You just said that you would confess.”

Tears slid down Benedict’s face. “What can I tell you? What do you want me to say? It was me and me alone. I thought everything up by myself and killed everybody. Tell me what to confess and I’ll do it.

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