Bound to the Alpha King novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Black-Root
"Clear the hall," said Rorik.
His voice cracked across the room.
The lords went out in a shuffling, muttering stream.
Gisbert Rook was last, and he looked back at me from the doorway with such tender pity that I wanted to be sick.
"Your father's poison, child," he said. "How sad."
Then the doors shut, and I stood alone with the king, his sister, his captain and a dead woman with her face in the honey.
"Tobren," I said.
I did not wait for anyone to answer.
I ran.
The undercroft was warm and dim, with forty cots and the smell of boiled linen.
My brother sat on the edge of his cot with his hands between his knees.
The two guards on the door looked at me with the polite blankness of men told not to look.
He was crying already.
That was how I knew.
"Hedda," he said.
"Tell me."
"I didn't know what it was for."
"Tell me."
He wiped his nose on his wrist.
"He came to the infirmary window," he said. "The night before the oath. A man in a grey hood.
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