Thy Name Is Love (The Yorkist Saga) - Plot & Excerpts
Then he was off with his retinue, and vanished for over a week, until one day he suddenly sent her a note saying he would be back from the Scots border presently and needed to speak with her. Denys waited in eager anticipation, even dressing better than her wont for the occasion. The way they had left things between them that night in the castle's drafty corridor did not sit well with her, and she hoped that this might be a real chance to come to a better understanding with the man she was now married to. All of her romantic expectations were crushed in an instant. The first words out of his mouth were like a body blow. Certainly they were the last ones she ever wanted to hear. "The news is not good, my lady. Anne was delivered of a stillborn child," Valentine said without preamble as soon as he entered her private sitting room. Denys dropped her needlework and sat in stunned silence while the servers continued to bring in the evening meal she had hoped they could share: roast suckling pig, crane and lark.
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