by Albert Noyer
“Earned?” Is she being sarcastic? It never occurred to me to pay my wife for her help in the clinic. I mean, the woman already has everything—
“Are you coming?” Arcadia called from the edge of the herb garden.
“Right.” Setting up Arcadia’s birthday gift of the Oath might be a small step back to normalcy, toward coping with a Fate who scatters her gifts with a blind hand. Getorius caught up with his wife and slipped an arm around her shoulders. “I’ll try to see Galla Placidia tomorrow about our plan for visiting Constantinople. And wherever you want to put my plaque will be fine, Cara, but…but…I’ll pay for those new clothes you want to take along on our voyage.”
“Very well, Husband, I won’t soil my fingers with your gold.”
“You’re not upset?”
She smiled sweetly at him. “Of course not. Now let’s go mount that plaque.” But, Getorius, the day will come when I do have my women’s clinic and then we’ll see who buys my things!
About the Author
Albert Noyer
With degrees in art, art education and the humanities, Albert Noyer’s career includes working in commercial and fine art, teaching in the Detroit Public Schools and a private college. He lives in New Mexico, and has previously published other historical mysteries, The Saint’s Day Deaths and The Secundus Papyrus.
*Real people recorded in history
*Real people recorded in history
*Real people recorded in history
† The character Publius Maximin was based on the real person Petronius Maximus but as his role in the novel was largely fictionalized, his name was changed.
