While challengers fought, Elizabeth wept. She cared little about everything happening in the Tower. Power? Riches? Her second life? Survival?
All those were meaningless to her if she couldn't share them with the one she loved.
Lucius.
He had been a simple employee in a bank. Wake up, go to work, go back home, have dinner with his wife. Lucius had quite a simple but happy life. Elizabeth and he hadn't been rich or poor. They had had enough money to make a living and enjoy some of life's joy.
What more could one ask for?
They had liked to go bowling once a week. It was a ritual of sorts. Every Friday night they would eat out somewhere cheap, then go bowling.
Why? Maybe because that's how they had spent their first date. After twenty years of marriage, Elizabeth could recall it perfectly.
