“Any other teenage boy would protest that a deal was a deal. Desi needs to join our weekend study sessions. And what are we going to do for a date t...is week? We need to make it special to welcome our new girlfriend.”I wasn’t sure Desi caught the fact that Beca said our.Rachel didn’t hold my hand on the way to class after lunch. I found that I really missed it. I guess, looking back at the past half hour, I could understand. But she’d goaded me on, too. That was a petulant fifteen-year-old. Later that night after everyone had retired to bed, I made my way to the little room under the eaves of the inn where Oswine was billeted. I tapped softly on the door and after a few moments he opened it and invited me to enter his humble room, bolting the door behind me to prevent any from disturbing us. ‘Kind sir,’ I said, removing the simple shift, which was my only garment to stand naked before him, my flesh lit only by the warm light of a candle, ‘you have treated me with great. We were in the foyer, and I yelled, ‘Hey Honey!’ and he yelled back, ‘have fun?’ ‘We sure did’ I squealed and then told him that Linda was with me. We kicked our shoes off at the door and walked into the livingroom where he was, watching TV. He got up and kissed me, and gave Linda a kiss on the cheek and said hello. My hubby, what a gentleman, all my friends adore him because he pays attention to all the little details that make life great being with him. He isn’t one to pry or make rude or. ‘Yeah – well, in the beginning it was about Henry, then the idea kind of morphed into really being about Katherine of Aragon and possibly Mary…I have some ideas but that might turn into a separate story. It’s not a biography or anything,’ she added hastily. ‘I wasn’t really drawn to that, it became more…historical fiction, I suppose. Anyway, this agent asked to read the first couple chapters and passed it along to some publishers and one of them liked it so much they offered me a small.