Her Journey Beyond the Script novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Perdita's Price
Aveline took the note from Perdita's hand and did not step aside from the door.
Behind her, Torin had pulled on his shirt and stood near the bed, saying nothing.
The paper was thick cream stock folded in four.
The wax on it had been broken, and it carried the print of a small crowned bird.
She had seen that bird on the Queen's teacups.
Inside were two lines in a slanting, graceful hand.
Tomorrow, before the Queen's morning room opens. Fall on the eleventh step. Do not overact.
It was signed with a single letter, H.
"She wrote this to you," Aveline said.
"The night before the stair." Perdita's voice shook. "I kept it. I keep all of them."
"Why?"
"Because I thought one day somebody would ask me who was really pushing whom."
Aveline read the lines again.
Then she looked up at the girl with the split lip and the bruise.
She still wore the yellow dress she had worn to fall down the stairs.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Her Journey Beyond the Script are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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