The King & His Queen by Donna Fletcher

Author:Donna Fletcher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Medieval
Published: 2017-02-22T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Hemera was lost in her thoughts. It had been seven sunrises since last she had seen Talon and she had missed him more and more each passing day. No one would say where he had gone. She had woken the morn after she had snuck off to Talon’s sleeping chamber to find him gone, and a guard following her every step.

She was upset with both and worse was that she could not seek the comfort of the woods. With a guard always near, she could not sneak through the opening in the fence, not that she would, though it probably had been a concern of Talon’s. With Ulric still having plans for her, she would be foolish to place herself in harm’s way.

Her hand went to rest at her middle. If her sister’s vision proved true, which they always had, she would be carrying Talon’s bairn... the King’s bairn. The thought brought a smile to her face. She would give Talon what no one else could. It was another reason she would not chance going into the woods. She would not only be placing herself in harm’s way, but possibly the heir to the Pict throne.

If she was softly round with child when Verity had seen her and the land had been lush with growth as she had said, then it would mean the bairn would be born when the land began its sleep, possibly when the first snow fell. It would mean that Talon’s seed had already taken root and was flourishing inside her.

She smiled, the thought pleasing her. Her smile vanished when further thought had her wondering if people would doubt Talon was the father. No one knew they had mated. Would everyone believe it a ruse?

A scrunch of her brow had her wondering why his seed could flourish in her and not his two previous wives who now were near to giving birth to their new husbands’ bairns. Why her and not the other two women? If she questioned it, would others do the same?

She shook her head. She could not worry over something that was yet to be.

She stepped outside her dwelling to greet the morn and see the clouds restricting the sun, letting it shine through only at their whim, and to see that a guard was ready to follow her wherever she went. Her solitude had been disturbed and she could not bear it much longer, especially when Talon returned. They would never have any time alone together if they both were forever watched.

She had been spending more time on finding out who in the stronghold was involved in the plot to unseat the King. Unrest had settled over the people and Hemera could not blame them. If Hollins, one of their own, had betrayed them who was to be trusted?

“It is over.”

Hemera was not the only one stopped abruptly by the sharp retort. Others had stopped and sent a curious glance at Broc. Seeing that he had drawn attention, he grabbed the servant, Simca he had spoken to by the arm and hurried her off to the side of a nearby dwelling.

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