In the Shadow of Lions by Ginger Garrett

Author:Ginger Garrett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Reformation - England, England, Historical Fiction, General, Christian Fiction, Reformation, Historical, Anne Boleyn, Christian, Fiction, Religious
ISBN: 0781448875
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2008-08-31T21:00:00+00:00

I saw David bent over his work. There was a glass of whiskey on the table: I could smell it, the musky sweetness of grain and the sting of alcohol. I found I could move in this vision, as if I were in the room too. The Scribe stood behind me, his back to the door, so that it would not open. I didn’t know if he was holding me in or something else out.

I craned over David’s shoulders to see the papers scattered all over his desk. They were letters. I craned my neck to read one. They were all addressed to me.

Dear Bridget,

All I ever wanted was to make you smile. I failed you, and when you were diagnosed, I tried to save you. I bribed every doctor I ever met at your cocktail parties until one of them came through. I got you into the best research study going for ovarian cancer. But it fell through because you can’t stop making enemies of everyone you meet.

But I never stopped loving you.

And if there’s an afterlife, I never will.

Yours, David

I gasped and David sat up, flicking something off his shoulders. Frowning, he looked around the room, looking through me. He must have felt my breath over his shoulder.

He reached into a desk drawer and pulled out a gun.

“Stop him!” I screamed to the Scribe.

“No,” he replied.

I saw it, the most unlikely of books in the most unlikely of places. It was the Hutchins book and I knew it at once. It sat on his desk, a great thick black leather edition. He must have grabbed it for solace when he prepared for this moment. I shoved against it with all my might, trying to push it into his lap, startle him, stop him, but I couldn’t move it.

“Please!” I begged the Scribe.

David was checking the chamber one last time, snapping it back into place as he released the safety.

The Scribe nodded, and the book scooted to the edge of the desk. It tumbled to the floor with a resounding thud. The noise frightened David, who screamed just as he pulled the trigger.

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