Chapter 4 · free to read
They had bought the kingdom until dawn. Dawn was not coming for free.
The squire had spent his whole first life dodging the assignment nobody else wanted. He was done running from it.
She stole the assignment out of his hands the way he'd once stolen hope out of a doomed muster-roll.
The kingdom saw its first dawn in forty years. The squire saw a ledger that refused to close.
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