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“She suspects that Catherine Parr and Seymour are secretly wed!”
Nooo!The denial screamed through Bess's brain. She was rocked with disbelief.
Bess closed her eyes. Dear God, could any man plot such perfidy? Bess's mind recoiled from the evil thought, yet still it persisted. Denied marriage to one, would he wed the other so he could live with both, have congress with both?
Bess felt sick, yet she dare not display symptoms of nausea before Lady Frances. The Court was a cesspool of scandalous gossip. Bess did not want it to touch her or her baby. “I don't believe it,” she said quietly.
“I do! Thomas is so insatiably ambitious, he would risk anything to gain more power than his brother Edward. Since he cannot have Harry's daughter, he'll settle for Harry's widow!”
“Why do men take whatever they want?”
Frances laughed. “Because women let them.”
And there is my answer, Bess thought dispassionately.
