Daughter of Darkness
“She’d carried six children in as many years. All had been female, all except one had died at birth. Once she provided her husband with a male heir, he’d continue to frequent the bawdy houses but he’d leave her alone. She was weary from the constant pregnancies, and the beatings he inflicted on her.
The despair she felt, didn’t show in her eyes as she set a jug of ale in front of the squire and his guest, the Wesley preacher, Reverend Pollock. The two men had spent the last hour discussing Earl ...Lytton’s illness, Viscount Sommersley’s modernisation of the estate, and most of all, the woman called Sapphire. Neither had a good word to say about anyone, especially Sapphire, whose mystic powers were well-known.
When her husband brusquely dismissed her, Annie hurried to get her cloak. If he found out she’d arranged a rendezvous with Sapphire in a secluded cottage on the outskirts of the village he’d beat her senseless. She caressed her swollen stomach. She was willing to risk it if the outcome was a son.MoreLess
The despair she felt, didn’t show in her eyes as she set a jug of ale in front of the squire and his guest, the Wesley preacher, Reverend Pollock. The two men had spent the last hour discussing Earl ...Lytton’s illness, Viscount Sommersley’s modernisation of the estate, and most of all, the woman called Sapphire. Neither had a good word to say about anyone, especially Sapphire, whose mystic powers were well-known.
When her husband brusquely dismissed her, Annie hurried to get her cloak. If he found out she’d arranged a rendezvous with Sapphire in a secluded cottage on the outskirts of the village he’d beat her senseless. She caressed her swollen stomach. She was willing to risk it if the outcome was a son.MoreLess
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