To Love A Princess by Patricia Grasso

Author:Patricia Grasso
Language: ron
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

A long, shrill scream pierced the night.

Amber opened her eyes, uncertain of what had awakened her. Miles sat on the

edge of the bed and donned his mask.

“What is it?” she asked, placing the palm of her hand against his back.

Miles glanced over his shoulder at her. “I don’t know.” He pulled his breeches up

and reached for his robe. “Go back to sleep.”

“I am going with you,” Amber said, scrambling off the bed. She donned her

bedrobe and fastened it tightly around her waist.

Clutching the night candle, Miles headed for the door. Amber walked a step

behind him.

John and Isabelle, along with Rudolf and Samantha, stood at the top of the stairs.

“You heard that, too?” Miles asked, turning to walk up the stairs to the third

floor. “Do you think it was Terrence?”

“The scream came from outside,” John said.

The three couples hurried downstairs to the foyer and then outside to the

courtyard.

Following voices, they walked around the mansion to see a small crowd gathered.

Pebbles and several footmen stood in a circle and stared at something on the ground.

New voices sounded behind them. Amber looked around to see her three cousins,

wrapped in bedrobes, hurrying toward them.

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The footmen stepped back so the earl could see what held their attention. On the

ground lay the lifeless body of Terrence Pines.

Amber shifted her gaze to her husband, who turned toward her cousins. Before

he could speak, the princes held their hands up in a gesture of innocence.

“His neck is broken,” the Duke of Avon said, crouching down to inspect the body.

“Terrence must have been trying to escape,” Rudolf said, staring at the top-floor

window.

“God’s will be done,” Pebbles said.

“Amen,” said Princes Viktor, Mikhail, and Stepan.

Amber peeked at Rudolf, who actually winked at her. And she knew. Her cousins

had executed Pines by tossing him out the upper-floor window.

She touched her husband’s arm. “The Lord punished his crime and saved us from

scandal.”

“Who are we to question God’s wisdom?” Miles turned to the footmen,

instructing, “Wrap the body in a sheet and place him in the chapel until morning.”

Everyone except the footmen returned inside. No one spoke as they climbed the

stairs to their bedchambers.

“Go to bed,” Miles said, passing Amber the night candle. “I need a drink.”

Reaching her husband’s bedchamber, Amber removed her bedrobe and climbed

into bed.

What was her husband feeling about his cousin’s death? She hoped he wasn’t

feeling guilty on the off-chance that Pines had been innocent.

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Her husband was an honorable man and trusted other men to be equally

honorable. She prayed he would never suspect her cousins’ guilt. That could cause trouble

in her marriage.

A long time later Amber heard the door open. Through half-closed eyes, she

watched Miles cross the chamber to the bed. He tossed his robe aside and sat on the edge

of the bed to remove his breeches, then snuffed out the night candle.

Amber sensed his movement as he removed his mask. The bed creaked as he lay

down and rolled toward her, drawing her into his arms.

“How do you feel?” she asked.

“Relieved.”

“Terrence did not confess.”

“Do you believe in his guilt?” he asked.

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