Her Sinful Duke (VOWS OF SIN #1) by Daphne Byrne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Daphne Byrne
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Romance
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2.3 MB
- Price: Free
“Do you think she wants to whip me again?” Penelope asked Ciara
Everton, another oblate like her, as she was being taken to the
abbess for what seemed to be the millionth time in the five utterly miserable
years she had spent in the nunnery.
The first couple of days there were unspeakably bad. The rules were strict,
and there was no room for any mistakes. Those who erred paid dearly as
Penelope came to learn very early on. She could not even remember all of
the rules, let alone follow them. And there seemed to be little room for
kindness and leniency in the nunnery.
“Oh, no, Penelope,” one of the girls told her during one of the morning
inspections of their chambers. “Your bed…”
“What about it?” Penelope shrugged. Her bed was made… more or less. It
wasn’t perfect, but it was still made.
“If Mother sees it, you will be punished,” Ciara whispered softly as the
oncoming footsteps echoed in the distance. Penelope would only later come
to recognize that sound as the sound of reckoning.
Every transgression, even the smallest one such as a slightly untidy bed,
would merit a punishment. And that punishment depended upon the abbess
herself and her current mood, rather than the transgression itself. The
abbess almost seemed to take pleasure in hitting the girls with anything she
could get her hands on, or she would not let them eat for days. Penelope did
not know which one of the two was worse.
“I am so hungry,” Penelope murmured to herself as she sat in her chamber
while the other girls had breakfast. If such a thing could even be called
breakfast. Still, it was food, and Penelope had already gone a whole day
without any.
A knock on the door interrupted her troubled thoughts. She rushed to open
it, and much to her relief, there was one of the girls with a tray of porridge
and a small piece of bread. The two girls locked gazes full of sympathy.
“Eat quickly,” the girl said. “If Mother finds out, we will both be in
trouble.”
“Thank you,” Penelope replied with a trembling voice, grabbing the tray
and closing the door quickly after her. She didn’t even care if the abbess did
find out. She would satiate her hunger, and that was all that mattered at that
moment.
She hated every single moment she spent there, and because she still could
not follow rules even after all this time, she had not gotten the title of nun
yet, and she remained an oblate even though she was of age to become one.
However, seeing that she had no other choice, she had finally decided to
take the veil very soon, hoping that at least that way, she might ask to be
sent to a different nunnery with a different abbess, and perhaps, lead a better
life than the one she had there.
“I don’t think so,” Ciara’s sudden response startled Penelope firstly with the
sound of her voice that tore through the reverent silence that reigned around
them then with the actual meaning of her words. “She did not sound upset
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB