Chapter Twenty-two
Later that evening, Lucky’s brother-in-laws returned from Baltimore and came to the home to share a meal with Mary-Michael and the duchess, except Mary-Michael was no longer allowed to leave her cell. Staying in the tiny room was no great ordeal for her, but she felt it might be starting to wear on Lucky’s sister. So when the duke and Lia’s brother-in-laws arrived for dinner she sent her new sister-in-law off to share some time with her husband.
While Mary-Michael rocked her daughter to sleep, she said a prayer for Lucky. She worried for him, her new husband, and wondered how he was coping in their village’s tiny jail house. Because they rarely had to lock anyone up for more than one or two nights, half the building also served as the constable’s office. The cell itsel
