December—Beauvoir Keep
December—Beauvoir KeepAnnelise’s worst nightmare was unfolding before her very eyes and, worse, there was little she could do about it. She had already been chided once for not paying attention to her embroidery.
“Yves, the most sensible course would be to wed your sister to Hildegarde’s son.” Bertrand de Beauvoir clapped Annelise’s younger brother on the shoulder as if they were comrades. Though his manner was friendly—more friendly than he had ever been to Yves in the past—Annelise wondered why the old mercenary was so certain what choice Yves should make.
She was not certain that Bertrand had ever before spoken directly to Yves before. Her younger brother was a bastard, true enough, but their father had let him be raised within the walls of Château Sayerne.
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