Lie Down in Roses by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“I’m going to be married!”

Edwyna said the words with such loving reverence that Genevieve smiled despite all of her misgivings, and returned her aunt’s tumultuous hug.

It was a wonderful thing—surety. Edwyna loved her Jon. Even if he had been part of disaster and desolation, part of Edgar’s death, part of it all. She loved him and he loved her, and if Edwyna could forget, then everything was—well and good.

“I’m so glad for you,” Genevieve murmured, and she kept any bitterness to herself. She had been stunned and then heartily glad when Edwyna had come to her this morning, since she had wondered if Tristan had intended to keep her locked away from all society except that of his bouncing little doll, Tess. And she had wondered, too, if Edwyna would forgive her, since Genevieve’s actions had caused Edwyna a fair amount of heartache.

Edwyna, her eyes as bright as the stars, pulled away from Genevieve. “Tomorrow, Genevieve! Father Thomas is going to marry us tomorrow in the chapel. Oh, Genevieve, I am so very, very happy!”

Genevieve had to swallow sharply and look down at her hands. She loved Edwyna; she was happy for her. But she felt more lost and desolate herself than ever. God! What had happened here? Life was going on. Father Thomas prayed in his chapel, the peasants worked in the field, and old Griswald labored in the kitchen. It was almost as if ...

As if nothing had ever really happened. As if apocalypse had never come. Even with Edwyna, life was going on. Beautifully. She had fallen in love with the invader.

Only Genevieve was left to pay. Pay the price of treachery. She fought her imprisonment, frightening and angering them all, but damn it they’d all been a part of it; yet she was the one now being condemned.

But then, she thought with a shudder, she was the one who had raised a hand against Tristan, and by God, she now believed that his chivalry and his heart were indeed buried forever.

She hadn’t forgotten his words, nor his look, all through the night. She hadn’t understood completely, but she had felt something and she had known pity—which he would not want, of course, especially from her—and an even deeper fear and desolation for her own future. There was no mercy left in the man.

She turned suddenly from her aunt, not wanting Edwyna to see the tears that burned her eyes suddenly and inexplicably. “I’ll be thinking of you every moment. I’m sure it will be very beautiful.”

That was it, of course. Edwyna was going to be married, bound before God, and it would be beautiful and there would be a feast and maybe even dancing and ...

Genevieve would not be there. She would be the prisoner in the tower, tainted, forgotten.

“But you must be there!” Edwyna said. “Oh, Genevieve, you need but ask Tristan, and he will relent!”

Genevieve turned back to her, straightening so that she would not betray her disappointment. Edwyna had not seen Tristan last night when he had spoken to her.

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