Chapter 35 | In a Stew

"Achooo!!"

That was the seventh time I heard Marcus sneeze in the last one hour or so. He was in the meeting room with the other men of the house, and I was all over the courtyard, trying to get a glimpse of him. I walked by the room several times, missing him.

I went into the kitchen to help with the stew for dinner. I was careful to simmer it on the lowest possible heat but used the wrong size vessel. Marcus snuck up on me while I was in the tedious process of transferring the excess hot liquid off the ginormous pot into another vessel.

I almost dropped the ladle and screamed at him in a much shriller voice than I intended to, "Ah, go away!!"

I was feeling hot in the kitchen and annoyed with the men that they don't let the women of the house participate in their so called important meetings. 

"Shh! The entire house doesn't need to know that I am here."

He told the servants to leave.

"Are you mad at me?" He asked while moving st