Chained by Hades, the Underworld King novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Knife Again
Ingrith did not wait for the stair.
She held up the black coin that had been cold in her pocket since the forest.
It burned.
The wall of the grove opened on a ladder of black steps, and she ran up them with Kaelor behind her, his breath rasping.
"You are too weak for this," she said.
"I am a king."
"You are a husband with white hair. Stay behind me."
"No."
They came out among the standing stones above Skarnholt in the gray hour before dawn.
The hold lay under a thin skin of ice again.
Torches moved in the yard, and horses stamped by the gate.
Six Frostland riders in white fur stood in the courtyard, with their swords out and a dozen household men on their knees in the snow.
Another four were inside the keep.
She heard glass breaking upstairs.
"My room," Ingrith said.
"Wait."
She ran.
The side door to the kitchen stood unbarred.
She slipped through the dark warm room, past the ovens where the cooks huddled, and up the back stair.
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