Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Ashes
Ruvane went down.
His skull struck the black stone, and the ash-iron blade skittered out of his hand.
Torvald hauled himself up his cousin's body on his arms alone.
It was slow, and it was ugly, and it was the strongest thing Maelis had ever seen a man do.
He got a forearm across Ruvane's chest and pinned him, and set the point of his own blade against the hollow of his cousin's throat.
"Elder," Torvald said. Blood ran down his chin, and his voice carried to the stair. "Look at my wheel."
The grey elder stood frozen.
"Look at it. Now."
The old man crossed the ring, knelt by the wrecked chair, and picked up the broken wheel.
He turned the axle in his hands.
Under the splinters, the wood was clean and pale.
"Sawn," he whispered. "Through three-quarters, and then left to break."
A sound went through the clan.
"Last night, in my own keep," said Torvald. "By my captain's order."
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