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Balduin looked at me then with renewed interest, his eyebrows reaching for the ceiling. “Is she? I admit, I’m surprised.” Then he turned to face Nicolo. “And, yet, her being a maid changes nothing. If anything, I’m excited to know she’s never known another man!”
“Balduin,” Nicolo started but Balduin shook his head.
“I am not an unreasonable man, Nicolo,” he started, that smile still in place. “So it is that we shall share her,” Balduin finished with a shrug as if this were a commonplace conversation and he couldn’t understand Nicolo’s reservations.
“I would prefer… we didn’t,” Nicolo said and I could tell by his words and the expression on his face that this was the first time he’d ever denied his prince anything.
“And why is that?” Balduin frowned at him. “It’s not as if we haven’t shared a woman before. What makes her different?”
The words sounded as if he was joking, but his face was a challenge;don’t forget who’s the prince here.
“I worry that you knowing her intimately might perhaps…interferewith her duties as my squire,” Nicolo answered. He was now grasping for straws.
Balduin threw his head back and laughed. “Then replace her with the next little minx who crosses your path.”
As if it were so easy to find a female squire who knew how to fight.
“Your Highness,” Nicolo started but Balduin stopped laughing and turned an angry expression on his friend.
“Nicolo, you forget your place.”
Nicolo took a deep breath and then nodded as he expelled it and turned to face me. “Charlotte, you will go with the prince.”
I wanted to scream.
I wanted to tell Nicolo to behave like a man and stand up to his so-called friend but his so-called friend was the prince and if Nicolo did stand up to him, who knew what might happen?
Not only that, but I was just a squire.
I saw the frustration in Nicolo’s face as I left with the prince, but that was nothing to the fear, shock and horror I was feeling.
