An urgent knock sounded on my outer door. My breath came faster as Inaya hurried to my side. “Is it King David?” The king had not been well in recent days, and by her stricken look I already knew the answer. She nodded. “He gave his final words to Solomon last night, and word has it that he just now slipped into Sheol.” I set my stitching aside and folded my idle hands in my lap, staring at the small calluses the needlework had caused. Solomon had not come to me last night or told me about his father’s final words. “Where is Solomon?” I could think of nothing else to ask and suddenly wished he were the one standing beside me to give me this news and hold me close to his heart. Though he had not taken another wife since his coronation, his visits to me were few. And I did not miss the looks that had passed between him and Abishag when we visited his father’s chambers together.
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