Chapter 6 · free to read
She had let me walk down into a grave so there would be no stair back out. Now the diggers were coming.
The Guard commander did not look at the Dowager first. She looked at the ledger. Then at the man with the brand. A soldier reads a room like a battlefield.
One soldier stood between two monsters. That meant she was the only one in the room not yet bought. I bet everything on it.
The Dowager felt the floor shift and did what she always did — she reached for the leash.
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