CHOSEN

THIRTY TWO

"Love is like a sudden flame; it springs up in the heart and often consumes the whole being in a moment."

HONORE DE BALZAC

THE DUKE

We walked stealthily to the place we had seen in the vision, I could see that it had been made into a garden and in the garden were two cottages. I signaled on Henry to follow closely behind me as I did not want to alert them of our presence.

We hid watching when we saw somebody come out of one of the cottages, I instantly recognized her as the new maid the one that worked personally for Guinevere

So it was she who had stolen Katherine's body, I thought

We watched her until she had gone into the second cottage before advancing to the first and true to what I thought Guinevere was tied there, her eyes closed at first and I thought she was dead until she moved, opening her eyes. I rushed over to meet her but she was looking beyond me at something or maybe someone.

It was then in dawned on me that I had walked into a trap, there was a man standin