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A Heartbeat
“Elsabet?” He murmured during dinner later in the day. Hoping to prompt some conversation from her.
She’d been painfully quiet since yesterday.
Please talk to me. He willed her. Missing her zest for the meal from yesterday.
She looked up from her trencher of food.
He’d been joining her at one corner of the long table. But tonight, he sensed he was unwelcome since he’d told her he wouldn’t release her. She hadn’t said a word to him in months and it was making him ache inside. How much longer will this go on?
She no longer crept into his room to warm his lonely nights.
He spent them instead listening to her up in her chamber, from his chamber in the servant’s quarters. Soothed by the sounds of her slumber but torn asunder, nonetheless. What’ve I done?
The absence of her affections was agonizing. And he wondered constantly about the impending introduction to his child. Will I get to meet her?
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