Fie! Fie! As soon as I laid eyes on my sister Katherina and Princess Isabella, I knew all.
Or not all, but I knew they’d been making mischief and somehow had been caught, for they stood with their heads together, dressed like well-born youths in tights, thigh-length tunics, and short capes. Like youths. Boys. Males.
Gentle reader, you will not be surprised to hear I gasped in thunderous dismay.
They turned as one and stared at me in a mirrored horror, their beautiful faces dark with strain.
Princess Isabella’s chin wobbled as if she wanted to bawl like a calf, and while Katherina’s long tresses were tucked beneath a brocade cap, Isabella’s hair was in a braid down her back and her cap was nowhere to be seen.
“What have you done?” I whispered.
As I said, not always tactful, for the already-fraught Katherina caught fire, leaped to the railing and whispered back, “Nothing you haven’t already done, Sister!” She projected so well, Nurse’s snoring abruptly stopped.
We froze.
Katherina and Isabella didn’t want to be caught in boys’ clothes. I didn’t want them to be caught in boys’ clothes because, as Katherina said, I had indeed done exactly that myself. What I’d failed to realize was that anyone in the family had discovered my folly, much less my-seven-years-younger-than-me sister.
We waited, barely breathing, as Nurse muttered and groaned, and at last resumed her bed frame rattling snore.
We all breathed sighs of relief, and Isabella poked Katherina hard with her elbow. “Chiudi la bocca. Rosie might be able to help us!” — Out now! WHAT DREAMS MAY COME is a first person historical romantic adventure eNovella which can stand alone, but is better read as the second in the Daughter of Montague series. The series stars Rosie Montague, the oldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. BUY NOW:
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