Ascension to the Lost Throne novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: What She Chose
The fire cracked behind them, and the smoke rolled across the gravel between the three of them.
Jude held the scarred man's pistol low at his side.
He could have raised it.
Fifty feet and a rifle stood between him and the shot, and his wife stood in the line.
"Mari," Corwin said.
"Look at me."
Marina looked.
Her hair had come down around her shoulders, and the bruise on her cheek had turned the color of a plum.
She held Jude's coat closed across her chest with one fist.
"I'll make it simple, because you were always bright," Corwin said.
"Come across this gravel and stand by me, and he walks up that road alive."
"I give you my word."
"Stay beside him, and I shoot him where he stands, and you see exactly what your choice costs."
"Papa."
"Your father or your husband."
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