I Accidentally Slept With My Future Brother In Law novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Loan Calls
Council didn't sit in the council room that morning.
The King said he wasn't climbing those stairs for Oswin Pellow, so it sat in the great hall.
Word had gone round the palace by breakfast.
By nine the benches were packed to the doors, and the gallery above was full of maids pretending to dust.
I sat on the end of the front bench with Blanche on one side and the cook on the other.
The cook had come up in her clean apron and refused to leave.
"I've never seen a council," she said. "I want to see one before they hang somebody."
"Nobody's hanging today."
"Then I'll be disappointed."
The King sat his throne in the red dressing gown, with his stick across his knees.
Bertrand sat at the long table below the dais with his ledgers stacked in front of him.
His silver chain was back on. His shirt was done up right.
Blanche had done the buttons for him in the gallery at a quarter to nine, in front of three footmen.
Alistair stood behind his father's throne with his arms folded.
The Duke of Ellesmere sat at the council table in black velvet, as Lord Chamberlain, with a clerk at his elbow.
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