Anne O'Brien - Queen of the North - sumptuous and evocative historical fiction from the Sunday Times bestselling author

‘You are too fastidious.’

‘I am not fastidious enough.’ I made him laugh as I unlaced his shirt. ‘If you wish me to be quicker I can use that knife.’ It lay on the floor beside us.

‘I don’t need a knife. I can be very fast. Are you going to be a submissive wife?’

‘Mortimer wives are never submissive.’

‘Which I am of a mind to disprove.’

Disrobed in no time at all, our reunion was sweet and thorough, with no more forays into family loyalties until Harry was lacing himself into a damask robe of vibrant colour that even dulled his russet hair.

‘We will be leaving before the end of the week.’

‘I know.’

‘I will deliver your cousinly good wishes to Lancaster.’

‘Thank you.’ And then, because I could not completely dispel my worries: ‘I have a bad feeling about this, Harry. Make sure that you know what Lancaster wants from you.’

Harry belted the garment loosely around his hips.

‘Oh, we will. And we will make sure that he knows what we want from him.’

And I would know too. I had no intention of being left at Alnwick when contentious issues were raised with my cousin of Lancaster, but better not to reveal my plans. Better to allow Harry to believe that he had persuaded me to be compliant. How had we been wed for so many years and he not realise that when he marched south, I would be with him? For the moment I would make my preparations, without fuss, as he made his.

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