Chapter 4 · free to read
Rule nine. A servant does not stand between two masters.
Two names crossed out, one stroke each. A third handed to me. I had thought all night that I had an accomplice. I was the brush.
Two monsters, each holding the other by the throat. Rule nine says the servant does not stand between them. Rule nine has never once said where else she is to stand.
Rule ten is mine, not the palace's. When two hands reach for the same rope, take the rope.
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