ea

rd on her knees across the marble floor toward the dais. "Do not let her f

stone walls, shattering the sol

the King or the eld

g the distance between us

et, I brought my right hand down acros

ed Dessie flat

ns, spitting out a mouthful of blood and

ell, "is for daring to fabricate a charge of treason aga

orted into pure, m

solent

with a sickening snap, and his arm blurred forward,

l tore through the

ning the wall - whistled past my shoulder and crashed through t

spiderweb cracks rippling across the floor

illar where he had stood watching

his sleeves, he strode forward with the arrogant, unhurried

over the shattered marble to stand in front of me, planting hims

pear from the stone floor with one hand,

uite eager to slaughter your own blood on the King's sacred floor. Tell me, has the Richmon

s feet, trembling with

an internal matter o

hovered a hair's breadth from Dessie's nose. "I have stood in this hall and heard every word. A Disgraced Omega trying t

shifted unc

a cold sweat, dropping to b

! Lady Dessie and I share a bond of pure, h

ines's broad shoulders, movi

e the King, bowing my head until my f

esses such pure, unyielding love for my sister, and since my sister is so hopelessly devoted t

tilted

you aski

rand Champion Knight from his true happiness, nor do I wish to see my sister waste away in misery. The

rmur erupted th

n the center of the royal throne room and o

lacked in utt

beg, to weep, to cli

a wolfless girl was a humi

ely contain the twisted gl

ght she

thinking this would smoothly transition

his golden scepter, prepari

ory's pale face, "before the crown dissolves our bond, there is the small matte

breath h

nonsense are yo

spear, letting out a

rmured. "Let the whole court see what