He kissed her forehead and carried her up into the balcony floor up the spiral staircase. Turned the light on with his shoulder and placed her on the huge bed. She looked like she fitted. It had been a cold, unwelcoming bed until she had been placed there, now it looked like home. He pulled the thick eiderdown quilt over her. Kissed her hair and went downstairs again to watch the night with his crew. Because he had stolen a queen and now the king would send death.
Shanna was dreaming, she knew she was, but she couldn’t wake up. Her whole body hurt. She could hear the blood pumping though her veins a steady whoomph, whoomph, whoomph. She was sat cross legged in front of a big cat. The cat was sitting staring back at her with glowing amber eyes. Its tail curled around its paws. It was no b
