Chapter 15 · free to read
Lian's little book took me until the fourth watch. By its last page I understood what my husband had been stopping to protect, and it was not the clan.
Lian's own seal. They had made the first bride a signatory to the murder she was hunting, so that when she turned on them she could be killed as one of the ten.
Four hundred years of a family, and it came out of him in one breath, in the voice of a man setting down something heavy.
Dawn came over the wall and did not kill me. The county came in underneath it, and this time the gates were opened from the inside.
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