After My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Into a Book, the System Made Us Seduce Each Other's Husbands novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Past Day Ninety
Mirelle felt the dais shake under her feet.
The red moon hung over the courtyard with a crack of gold across its face, and the voice of the System rolled down from it, huge and flat.
THE ENDING MUST BE WRITTEN.
Nobody on the steps moved.
The crowd could hear it too now, and Mirelle saw two hundred faces tip back in terror.
"Where is the book?" said Elora.
"What book?" said Mirelle.
"The one I carried. The guards took it as evidence. It's the novel, Mirelle. It's the real one. The System reads the last page from it."
Aurek was already moving.
He crossed to the Empress's table, where the captain had laid out the cut leather and the forged letter, and came back with the dark book in his fist.
He put it in Elora's hands.
The cover was warm, and the gold letters on it were glowing.
"Open it to the end," said Dacian.
Elora turned the pages, fast.
Near the back, in tidy black print, the last paragraph of the story shone on the page.
"On the night of the Blood Moon, the human princesses were dragged to the dais in chains."
Linnea made a sound on the stones.
She was on her knees, with her burned hand tucked against her robe, and her eyes were fixed on the book.
"Give it to me," she said. "Give it back."
She lurched upright and went for it.
Mirelle stepped in front of her.
It was not a graceful step, because she was in a red velvet gown with bruised wrists and no sleep, but it was a good one.
"Sit down," she said. "You lost."
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