After My Husband Abandoned Me, I Rule All Dragons novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Witnesses
Bettris snatched a bow off the nearest clansman and nocked an arrow at the herald.
Dorrit pushed the bow down.
"Don't," she said. "He's just the mouth."
"Then I'll shut the mouth."
"Then they'll hang your brother a month early."
Bettris lowered the bow.
The herald turned his horse and trotted away after the army, a bit faster than he'd come.
I stood on the wall with my hands on the cold stone.
Accomplice.
For every death the black dragon had caused in fourteen months.
Shepherds on the moors. Riders of the Wing. A drover and his dogs.
I'd heard the list at court every week for a year.
I'd never once thought I'd be on the end of it.
"Well," the elder said beside me. "They want you at the Moot, then."
"They want me on the gallows."
"Same road," he said. "You'll want company on it."
I kept my promise.
It was the hardest thing I'd ever done.
Snow closed the high passes in the second week, and nobody could have gone south if they'd wanted to.
I taught.
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