My Fated Mate Was a Lie, Now the Alpha King Wants the Truth novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Knot
At dawn every candle in the bedchamber leaned north.
I woke with Cassian's arm heavy over my waist and a sound in the walls.
A hairline crack ran across the ceiling plaster from the window to the bed.
He was awake.
He lay with his eyes on the crack and his hand spread over his chest.
"It's the wards," he said, in a rasp worn down to a thread. "They've dropped."
"By how much?"
"A tenth."
I sat up and put my palm on his mark.
The rope-hum under his vow was thin and strained, and the web across his throat had not moved.
"Hollin's draw is gone," I said. "Ten cairns are carrying what eleven did."
"And they'll pull harder from me to do it."
A knock came at the door, loud enough to ignore.
"I know what I said about a day," said Hester through the wood. "Are you wearing clothes?"
"No," I said.
"Put some on. Breakfast is in the kitchens and there's a delegation at the gate."
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