Tudor Rose by W. H. Doyle

Author:W. H. Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: historical fiction, fantasy, royals, friendship, romance, Europe
Publisher: Month9Books
Published: 2019-04-09T07:00:00+00:00

Winter curfew in London was dusk.

But for Avis and her friends with powerful connections, that had never really applied. They came and went as they pleased, and she had traveled beyond the palace walls much later than this on many occasions. Always in the company of her parents or friends, of course. Never alone.

She worried briefly about getting past the night watchman. But that proved simple. She didn’t need the coins stashed in her purse or the threats she had prepared in her head. She just slipped out amidst a company of revelers who were heading home—the reason for their early departure clearly demonstrated by the constants streams of vomit ejected by three out of four of them.

Avis peeled away from the group and clattered loudly down the rock-strewn street in her hard shoes. She was a white fluffy lamb inviting the wolves to attack. Again, she worried that she was being foolish. And that Fulke had been right to distance himself from her, and in such a publicly humiliating way.

Damn Fulke, Avis thought tipsily, pulling the white fur hood up around her head and letting her residual rage propel her forward. I’m going to get my sister’s hairpin and then all will be well and Fulke will crawl to me.

Digging up anyone’s grave, Avis thought, was not something you did sober. Digging up your sister’s grave was something better to do drunk. Lucky for her, Avis currently qualified for the latter category.

There weren’t really that many items in her plan to be concerned about. And that was unfortunate. Avis was a detail-oriented young woman, and she loved checking off tasks in an undertaking.

Detailshhh! Even her thoughts were a bit slurred after the buckets of wine she had consumed. She needed to treat this night like one of her projects with details!

Here was an interesting detail: Avis could be certain that her plan must be against the laws of queen and country. Not to mention God’s. And that she—and more than likely her current and any future family—would pay harshly for such an offense in this life and perhaps the next. But it was a risk Avis was willing to take.

Once Fulke had abandoned her, Avis considered involving Maggie in tonight’s adventure. They had been together since Avis was eight and the maid was twelve. Maggie had already arranged for a side entrance to the cathedral to be unlocked and for the men who would damn their souls to hell by aiding her to be waiting for her. If Avis needed someone to take the blame if she was caught, Maggie would make the perfect candidate. But in the end, Avis decided she couldn’t trust anyone in the lower classes when it came to such a treasure—or her methods of acquiring it. How easy it would be for her maid to casually slip the pin into her cloak.

Then what was Avis to do? Ask the queen to punish the maid who helped her steal a pin from her dead sister’s

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