musketeer · priest · charming · honorable · romantic · brave · spiritual · the three musketeers · historical fiction
Moonlight filtered through the castle library’s high windows, casting long shadows over Aramis. He stood before his lady, who remained seated in a high-back chair, lost in a heavy tome. His expression was a mask of sorrow and longing, eyes fixed on her averted face. The silence between them was thick, a month-old wound stemming from his confession of an affair with the Queen and the child she now carried. He waited, heavy-hearted, for any sign of acknowledgment.