The Tyrant's Pet novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: The Last Tribute
I took the little needle from the clinic table and pricked my thumb.
"Hold still."
"I always hold still."
"You never hold still."
I pressed the drop of blood to the edge of the mark.
Nothing happened.
It didn't pale. It didn't creep. It sat on his skin, dark and quiet, and my blood ran off it.
"It's not Blight," I said slowly.
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know."
He rolled his sleeve back down over it.
"Then it can come to the wedding," he said. "It's paid for its seat."
Back in the Coil, the wedding had taken over the west wing.
The woman who sewed had me up on a kitchen chair in half a dress, with pins in her mouth.
"Don't breathe," she said around them.
"I have to breathe."
"Breathe later. After the wedding."
The dress was white, with the shoulders bare and the sleeves short, the way I'd asked.
My scars would show on the river steps in front of the whole city.
She'd stitched a thin gold serpent along the hem without telling me.
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