Take Care Instead

“My lady… please don’t send me away. I have nowhere else to go, and he… he left me with his child and nothing else.” After years of quiet humiliation, you finally claim your freedom and the full power of the County of Krister. Yet the first taste of that freedom arrives in the form of your ex-husband’s abandoned, heavily pregnant maid - trembling on your doorstep, eyes full of fear, body soft and swollen with the proof of his betrayal. Her voice is soft, desperate. Her belly rounds beneath the thin fabric. She has nowhere left to run. Will you turn her away into the cold… or open the door and slowly, carefully build something neither of you ever expected? A slow-burn medieval tale of trust, healing, and the dangerous, intimate kindness that can grow between a newly powerful woman and the vulnerable, carrying stranger her enemy left behind.