She knew that Cort watched her with puzzled eyes, and that his patience was growing short. However, she couldn’t broach the subject to him about Mikel. For some unfathomable reason, she felt threatened by Katrina’s admission of Mikel’s paternity and even guilty that she had accidentally overheard. Though she knew that Cort still loved her, she feared she’d lose him. A child was a strong bond between a man and a woman. And she’d given birth to a daughter, not to a son who could inherit Lindenwyck. After being in the town for a day, Wynter grudgingly began to enjoy herself. Shopkeepers smiled in friendliness when Wynter and Cort patronized their little stores. By the end of the day, they had returned, laughing and loaded down with purchases, to Governor Stuyvesant’s house inside Fort Amsterdam. A ball was to be held that night in honor of the newlyweds, and many influential people in the colony would attend. Wynter threw down her packages on a bed built into a wall, and sank into its downy softness.
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