The Mysterious Knight 🏹 🔞 |Harry Styles AU| COMPLETED ✔

Chapter 20

“Of course I didn’t think you had done it, Harry,” Lillis assured him, unable to calm her anger.
“But the man who did do it ought to have a whip taken to him!”

Her husband laughed.

“And I imagine you’d like to be the one to wield it, would you not, my fierce wife? Calm yourself, sweeting, and come sit down with us. You look as though you’re about to throw something for the simple joy of it.”

Lillis plopped into the chair beside her brother.

“You find it amusing, my lord, but if you’d seen the poor girl just now you’d be on your way to hunt the animal down, I vow. I’m proud of you, Harry , for helping Rosaline as you have.” She patted her brother’s knee.
“It was right and chivalrous.”

Harry cringed.

“Please, Lillis, don’t speak that word in front of me, especially if you have to attach it to my name.

Besides, if you ask Rosaline, she’ll tell you a great many other words that would be more fitting. She never lacks terrible things to call me. I do believe that’s what I’ll miss the most about her.”

His eldest brother fixed him with an interested gaze.
And then exchanged a surprised  look with Marcel and his wife.

“Miss her, Harry?
I had thought your relationship with Lady Rosaline to be of a more permanent nature, and I expected you to tell Lillis and me of a possible future commitment.”

“God’s teeth, Alex!”
Harry uttered, horrified.

“Tell me you are joking! Rosaline no-name is the most troublesome female I’ve ever known.
I’d rather strangle myself !!.”

“But, Harry,” Lillis protested, “she’s quite sweet, and her manners are excellent. And you cannot deny that she’s very beautiful.”

“Well, there is that,” he admitted.
“She’s a goodlooking female. Did you see the look on Justin’s face when they were introduced? I thought he was going to go down on one knee right there in the great hall and make a fool of himself.”

Lillis giggled.

“He was stricken, was he not?  He has been looking for a wife. He determined only two months past that he will wed before he attains the age of five and twenty, and you know how seriously he takes such things. I fear he’s approached the matter of marriage much as he would any other problem.”

Harry grimaced.

“I can well imagine. Good lack! The boy has the personality of a rock.
Why don’t you send him to court, Alex?
Or out into the world?
Or anywhere other than Dart. He needs a little adventure to liven him up.”

Alexander sighed.

“Like you did?
From what we’ve heard about you over the past many years, Harry, it seems that your life has been one adventure after another.
You’ve been lucky not to end up in prison, or worse, have you not?”

Marcel cleared his throat and stoop up.

"I hope you will excuse me, but I  have to go. I have promised to bring Anne a few things from the monastery. I better get them to her before it gets too late."

Before anyone could object the monk flew from the room.

Harry knew his twin was lying again.

But in a way he was grateful not to have him around while talking about his fugue.