Blue Bayou ~ book I (Historical): Fleur De Lis
“Another sleepless night. She silently cursed the armada of mosquitoes that circled her, pricking her sensitive flesh and sucking her blood.
The rest of her life! She couldn't do it. She could not survive this kind of existence for the rest of her life!
Her fingers curled into the sheet. Since the evening four weeks before at St. Denises’, when she had learned that the Duc d’Orleans—and thus Fabreville—still held the reins of power and would do so indefinitely, she had been living in utt...er desolation.
How long? How much longer would she have to wait before Fabreville was out of power and Philippe was free?
The clump of sheet was a damp knot in the palm of her hand, and she released it. She didn’t need to peer into a stream’s reflective surface to know that dark splotches rimmed her eyes, that her body was growing emaciated, that she looked even more haggard than when she had emerged from the hold of the Baleine.MoreLess
The rest of her life! She couldn't do it. She could not survive this kind of existence for the rest of her life!
Her fingers curled into the sheet. Since the evening four weeks before at St. Denises’, when she had learned that the Duc d’Orleans—and thus Fabreville—still held the reins of power and would do so indefinitely, she had been living in utt...er desolation.
How long? How much longer would she have to wait before Fabreville was out of power and Philippe was free?
The clump of sheet was a damp knot in the palm of her hand, and she released it. She didn’t need to peer into a stream’s reflective surface to know that dark splotches rimmed her eyes, that her body was growing emaciated, that she looked even more haggard than when she had emerged from the hold of the Baleine.MoreLess
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