Casanova's Secret Wife by Barbara Lynn-Davis

Author:Barbara Lynn-Davis [Lynn-Davis, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 49

The bleeding got worse. The few rags I had were soaked with blood. I shredded my sheets when the rags ran out. Heavy shutters kept all the sun from my room. I felt like an animal in a cave, clutched in a ball of pain. Every so often there would be a light knock at my door. I held my breath, tears leaking down my face. I could not let anyone know my secret.

I wanted Giacomo! I wanted my husband to comfort me. I remembered our last night together, desperate against the wall in Campiello Barbaro. My legs open . . . his hot breath on my skin. Was this the night that had led me to where I was now? Or one of the nights in my brother’s room? At some magical point, our baby had started to grow. But now, the baby was leaving me—why? When I wanted it so much, more than anything else in my life?

I heard Concetta slip into my room. “I am back, I am back,” she reassured me, whispering. She balanced a pile of sheets in one arm and dragged in a big satchel behind her.

“We stopped in the ghetto and bought a Jew’s whole stock of linens—oh, God!” she said when she saw me lying there in the dark. “You are covered in blood! It looks like a butcher’s shop in here!”

I could see pieces of her sweaty hair stuck onto her ruddy skin. She was working herself like a mule. She was not a smart woman, but maybe this kept her loyal to me. She just did things that she saw needed to be done, acted simply.

“Is he here yet—Giacomo?” I asked weakly.

“Yes, cara. He is at my house. He is crazy with worry, waiting for news. He wrote you something in the boat—”

Concetta fumbled for her pocket, pulled out a folded sheet, and brought it to me. I grabbed it with a strength I didn’t know I had. I forgot my pain for a breath or two.

The message was written in pencil with a shaking hand.

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