The Bride and the Ashen Knight novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Through the Bars
Bess let me out at midnight with a stolen key and a purse of Nan's coin.
"The guard on the Tower stair likes dice," she whispered, pulling a cloak over my hair. "And he lost the whole week's pay on Tuesday."
"How do you know that?"
"I know everything, Highness. It's my best quality."
The Tower guard took the coin without looking at the purse, and held up five fingers.
"Five minutes," he said. "And I never saw a woman."
The cell was at the bottom of forty wet steps, and a single torch burned at the end of the passage.
Garrick stood at the iron bars before I reached them.
He had heard my footsteps on the stone and known them.
He was in his shirt, with the grey lines of his neck bright in the torchlight, and a bruise darkening his cheekbone.
"Who hit you?" I said.
"A guard who was sorry about it."
I caught the bars with both hands, and he covered my fingers with his.
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