I backed up, allowing her to stand, and for the first time noticed her ample breasts hidden under her yards of robes. I watched her cross the hall to the archway opposite where Jules and Piers had followed Becket a few minutes ago. It was hard to tell anything about her figure with what she was wearing, and to my shock, I realized, I didn’t even care. I set out to follow her, find out more about her. What story was she writing? What wouldn’t I know about? Why was she dressed so elegantly, so queenly, but yet so demure and quiet?
“Gill!” It was Jules then, her hand wrapped around my wrist. “Where the fuck are you going?”
“Marie…” I motioned towards the other arch.
“This is no time to be chasing tail!” She hissed in my ear. “You have to come… now! We have a major fucking problem on our hands.”
I turned to my sister. Her face was pale and her eyes blood shot, and I knew she was as exhausted as I was. I could hear the agitation in her voice. “What’s wrong?”
“The prince,” she whispered.
“Yeah?”
“He’s dead.”
“Oh, fuck.”
I pushed her through the arch, leaving the memory of the mysterious Marie behind for a moment. It wasn’t until I followed Jules that I realized Marie had spoken to me in English.
Not Old English, a dead language with elements of Latin, French, and Norse sounds, but American fucking English. Even her accent was strange. Not French like Queen Eleanor, not British like Becket’s, but a mixture of both.
She spoke English.
Read more about Gill’s story in MARIE, Curse of Lanval: Book II, available on Amazon January 2017.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebekah Dodson is the author of the acclaimed romance series Postcards from Paris and the Surrogate series. She has been writing her whole life, with her first published work of historical fiction with 4H Clubs of America at the age of 12, and poetry at the age of 16 with the National Poetry Society. Since then she has pursued a career in technical communication and college instruction. With an extensive academic background including education, history, psychology and English, she currently works as a college professor teaching writing and language arts. She resides in Southern Oregon with her husband, two teenagers, and three dogs.
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