Chapter 51

"Madam?"

Not again. Fury dragged a pillow over her head to obliterate the sound and groaned. Then she threw back the sheet and retched. Every muscle in her stomach ached. A horrible, empty ache, because she was barely able to eat.

Other parts of her ached too. But that was a very pleasant ache. Eight weeks had passed, and how long she was meant to keep Flint thinking she still needed to conceive, she'd no idea. Being pregnant must do things to a woman's body. She hadn't realized she would feel so ravenous. For him.

"What?" she croaked. Couldn't Susan see how ill she was?

"Madam!" Susan grasped her wrist and shook her. "I wouldn't disturb you "

"Then don't."

"--but you have visitors."

"Oh, God, not Flint at this time in the morning. Can't he wait?"

"No. This is Malmesbury. And Lady Margaret."

Fury all but shot from the bed. Had her stomach felt queasy before, it heaved like an ocean now.

"Lady Margaret? But Lady Margaret never leaves England. She never "