The Mercenary's Bride
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‘It is your mother’s gold.’
‘My mother’s gold? Where did you find it?’ She reached out and lifted several coins from the box, looked closely at them and dropping them back inside. ‘It is gold,’ she said, raking her fingers deep into the box and through the layers and layers of coins.
‘Your father left it in plain sight, Gillian. Under the memorial plaque he made for your mother.’ He watched as she began to accept that it was real. ‘He did not leave you without support. He set this aside for your use. For your mother, for you, for Thaxted.’
He smiled at her surprise, knowing the same expression probably sat on his face when he’d opened the chest and glimpsed the riches within. ‘She goaded me into finding it—I suspect she wants us to have it,’ he admitted.
‘And I know that you will put it to good use, Brice. I trust you.’
Hearing the words that still did not come easily to her, Brice comprehended again how very much she was the treasure of Thaxted.
But the gold would certainly help since there were walls to build and a child to raise. Certainly, the gold would help.
And so, on the nineteenth day of January, in the Year of Our Lord 1068, a son was born to the lord and lady of Thaxted Keep. His father proclaimed that he would grow into the best man in the world. His mother simply smiled, for she knew that there could be no man better than the one she had married.
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THE MERCENARY’S BRIDE
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