The Stolen One by Suzanne Crowley

Author:Suzanne Crowley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: David_James Mobilism.org
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-03-24T05:00:00+00:00

The gravity of the situation has finally settled on my poor queen. Just yesterday she found the two, the admiral and the princess, embracing in the garden under the same peach tree where I was seduced, and the princess tickling his neck, no less, as they kissed. The queen won’t come out of her room, even though my lord pounds on her door and the sound reverberates through the entire house. Everyone is on edge; even Jane the fool does not seem my friend anymore. Yesterday as I came down a hall, I perchanced to see the admiral standing outside his wife’s door yet again. The door opened and a young groom, Porfirio (the Handsome, we maids call him), walked out innocently enough with a bucket and broom, but the admiral noticed his shirt in disarray, and there ensued quite a commotion with much yelling and screaming between husband and wife, with him proclaiming he shall have them both, Katherine and Elizabeth, meaning the queen and the young princess, and that he was the master, no matter if she be a former queen or not. Later I heard from one of her maids that the queen unbuttoned the poor groom’s shirt just before he left, knowing her husband would see, and the fool had no idea what she was about. Aye, it was a rash thing she did, aye, it was. For Porfirio’s been sacked and yet the admiral still toys with the princess. The queen has taken to her bed because of the upset. I tend to her with my potions, and she is much relieved. My own babe is beginning to show and the queen, being in like manner, guessed my shame. I told her it was Porfirio who brought me down, as he seemed an easy blame, being gone and unable to defend himself. She smiled but a little and said I could stay on, that she could not live without me.

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