Richard!’
While I stared into the flames of the heath, grim images passed by and the soft timid voice mentioned my name far away. Her hand touched my sleeve hesitantly, withdrawing with arrow speed when I turned to her. She smiled halfheartedly in a compassioned attempt to lighten my dark disposition.
‘I thought I had lost him. ‘Jocelyne pressed her lips. Although she must have shared my sentiments, she had disapproved of my lashings. Wisely, she had held her tongue for my continued slumbering anxiety disguised as anger would have been prolonged. Her reply: ‘He has met no harm’, however, reminded me of wht could have happen.
‘He only took Ann to one of the wine orchards and afterwards they rod back into town to visit the cathedral.’ I exhaled long and deep, for the other source of
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I had decided to let this unfortunate episode slide, concentrating on the future. His future.
‘Your Lady mother and I wedded in the Spring. Wonderful time, springtime.’, I reminisced . Will’s mouth fell open, his eyes enlarged. He dropped his head slightly like a newly condemned felon.
‘I don’t love Felicia.’
‘I am not asking you to love her. Just..eh.. see her as a vessel and seek your pleasure elsewhere.’
‘That’s how you see mother?’
‘I have the deepest respect for you Lady mother. ‘My harsh voice filled the solar and I pointed my finger to him as if to draw my sword defending my Lady’s honor. Walking away, bending over the heath where the flames where still dancing with no care in the world. I contemplated this flaying up defiance. ‘Had my sire lived loner, I too had to take on a wife of his choice and I would have not have disobeyed him. No matter the ill feelings, as you well know, I had for him. ‘Will stood silent appearing to over think mattes as usual.
‘Despite all, I made a promise to Leistercer’, I concluded, ‘and I always, as you well know, keep my