September 23rd 1516

Hamburg Manor, Germany

Finn Balke (Hans Wolff) POV

After having my Dukedom given back to me, I move my family back into Hamburg Manor and after we are settled in, make love to my wife repeatedly.

As she miscarried the babe a month ago and I need a spare heir, or as others would see it, an heir of my own.

I make love to Beryl ten times but it doesn't take at first and then I see why.

She took the potion to make sure she does not conceive, well I have the antidote to that and the fertility potion.

I force both of them down her throat, one after the other and then I make love to her ten more times and it takes as I have a witch in the household to tell me when she gets pregnant.

I leave my wife's rooms and go to mine where my second cousin (red hair, green eyes, heart shaped lips, oval shaped face, and pale complexion) waits for me to tell me something apparently.

''Cousin, I wanted to tell you the good news myself. I am married now. I had my wedding week two weeks ago.'' she said.

When she says that, I am furious as I wanted to take her maidenhead.

I give her wine unknowingly to her laced with a potion to bring her maidenhead back and another potion for fertility.

I kiss her after she drinks all of the wine.

''We can't. I'm married and so are you Hans.'' Greta, my cousin tells me.

''If you are so against it why are you spreading your legs?'' I ask her.

She moans as I strip both of us and when I align myself with her, she can't wait any longer and changes our position and sits on my lap, ridding herself of her maidenhead a second time.

I switch us back and make rough passionate love to Greta and finish inside of her (impregnates her).

After the fifth and final time, we redress and Greta leaves my room and I burn the sheets as there can be no evidence of me and Greta making love to each other.

October 2nd 1516

Beryl Balke nee Black POV

People are talking about Friedrich Herr's heir and spare and how his wife died of childbed fever soon afterwards and how he had to remarry soon after by the order of the King.

Knowing that Friedrich's children are mine as he had Helga steal my babes from the womb and transfer them to hers but I can never say they are mine as Friedrich is an important figure in the German court, it breaks my heart to know that my sons will never acknowledge me as their true mother.

Oh, how I long to hold little Stefan and little Peter in my arms.

But I know I cannot as they are known as Helga's children with Friedrich.

If only I had done what Friedrich asked, I would have been known as their mother and Helga as their stepmother.

I know I would have died, but at least I would have died with honor and not as the adulterer they make me out to be.

Now since I didn't close my eyes, I am thought to be an unfaithful woman who needs her maids with her at all times lest she cheat on her now third husband.

I cannot have a moments peace unless I am taking a bath or using the loo but other than that, the maids are always with me.

Oh, freedom how I miss thee and thine own embrace.

After I consented to wed Friedrich is when I lost thee and I will never know thee again as I am a mother and wife.

How I wish I could turn back the clock and tell my sister no instead of agreeing to marry Friedrich Herr.

Now I am stuck in a loveless marriage to a man I despise with my whole being who happens to be the father of my child.