Chapter 16
Divorce? Anna had blindsided him.
He’d paced the suite they were sharing that still smelled like her rosewater shampoo.
Outside toward the setting sun, he remembered her sitting beside him with a glass of wine. When he turned and headed into the bedroom, more memories assaulted him. His lips tingled and he pressed his fingers to his mouth.
A second later, her words were so clear that it sounded like she’d yelled at him again as she said she was leaving him.
Because he wouldn’t allow her to raise his baby at court? He would trust her to raise any child but Francesca’s child at court would tear the country apart. His people believed they were blessed by God as the Aussas were good rulers, who built the church for them where Mary dictated. Even if it was rubbish, a child out o
