The walk to the Gathering was unbearable as the stench of roasted meat wafted through the halls of the main house, but Rosemary was starving, and her stomach grumbled in pain. Seeing her stumble through the hallway, Nicholas hustled to her side and took her arm in his. “Allow me. I’m so happy to see you out of your room. The fresh air will do you good.”Breathing a hundred different ways through the nausea that gripped her, Rosemary closed her eyes. “I really don’t think so. The smells are intolerable.”
Standing before an army so large it filled the valley below, Daniel clasped his hands behind his back and strolled down the cobblestone path with Rosemary by his side. The stoic soldiers stood stone-faced as the King inspected his troops.Glancing over his shoulder at his family waiting on the hill behind him, Daniel smiled as the sun parted the clouds and shined down over them. Their faces were still quite fuzzy, but so real that he could almost reach out and touch them. As the morning light reached
Peeking around the midwife’s door, Daniel smiled at Rosemary as she turned her head on the white, down pillow to face him. “May I come in?”Motioning with her hand, Rosemary nodded with her sweet face. “Please. She was just starting.”Daniel sat down in the chair beside the bed Rosemary laid on then p
The afternoon sun graced every inch of Rosemary as she stood in the light of the open doorway in front of the full-length mirror. Her fiery, auburn hair blazed like Daniel’s fires as the breeze carried her wavy locks on the air. “A vision. That’s what you are.” Nicholas leaned against the doorway as he watched the women work on Rosemary’s hair. As they braided back the sides of her hair, it was gathered loosely in the back.With her mother’s crown in his hand, Nicho
“You’re so beautiful.” Pushing his robes to the floor as he walked to Rosemary, Daniel’s heart raced and his whole body hummed as he looked over his wife. He’d imagined this night every time he closed his eyes to sleep and having her in front of him finally like this was all he ever really wanted.No kingdom would ever be as great as what his eyes gazed upon tonight. Pulling off his shirt, Daniel l
"It'snearly time, isn'tit?" Agamori narrowed his eyes at the men training before them then glanced to Daniel. "You are aware that the moon is full tonight, aren't you?"Wrinkling his nose at the question, Daniel looked at Agamori and shrugged. "What does that have to do with anything?"Agamori twisted his lips and shook his head with his arrogant scowl never far behind his disapproving expression. "It'sas if you've learned nothing at all since you've come, Daniel. When we finally do take the castle, you need to spend more time learning the old texts. You are a warrior, without a doubt, but youknowso little about the religion.It'sa tragedy, really.""Tragedy?" Daniel chuckled to himself. "I'm a fighter, that's what I need to learn now. I can't read the langua
“They outnumber us three to one, Daniel. Perhaps, we should think of a different plan.” Agamori spoke softly as he peered from behind the tree.A huff shot from Daniel’s throat as he drew up his face at the silliness of such an idea. “No, it will work.”Agi squinted his eyes and took another look. “It’s my job to tell you when the odds are not in your favor.”
The faint vibration in Daniel’s fingers and toes moved swiftly through his body until the click-click of horse hooves on the cobblestone path and the Sentry’s alarm reached his ears. “Her Majesty’s approaching.”A flutter in Daniel’s chest wiggled its way up to his throat and no matter how he tried to swallow it down, the nervous rush overwhelmed him. Six long months had passed since he’d taken his kingdom and the castle was finally worthy enough for his family to join him.