I Married the Emperor to Kill Him novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Barred From Outside
"Cassien. Cassien, get up, he's doing it."
Maelis had his shoulder in both hands.
Cassien had fallen asleep sitting against the locked door, with his brother's dagger across his knees.
The door was open behind her.
She had a big iron key in her fist with a silver tassel on it.
"Where did you get that?"
"The Grand Duchess."
"Isandor told her to take me south."
"She said she would sooner take a cat to a bath." Maelis hauled him up. "She said if anyone is going to stop him, it's you."
Cassien did not stop for boots.
He ran through the gallery of dead emperors in his shirt and stockings, and the guards on the doors stepped aside.
He came out into the barracks yard barefoot on frozen sand.
Corvain's ringed fingers were already closing on the circlet in Isandor's hand.
"Don't you dare," Cassien shouted.
Every head in the yard turned.
He walked across the sand.
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