Swapped Bride: Awakening of the True Princess novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Cup
Hild listened to the whole thing standing in the pantry with her keys in her fist.
"Forty hands in my kitchen," she said. "Nineteen came with that grain wagon."
"Can you tell which one?"
"I can tell which ones are afraid of me. That is all nineteen."
Marit looked at the long scrubbed table and the rows of hanging copper.
"Then I won't look for the one who poured," she said. "I'll make the one who poured show himself."
The great hall of Stonefast was packed to the rafters by dusk.
The clans sat shoulder to shoulder on the benches, loud and happy, the Red Ridge chief already three cups in.
Marit sat in the high seat with the iron crown on her head.
Torren sat at her right, the sword across his knees.
His color was good.
He had eaten and laughed at the ford all afternoon, and she hated that she was watching him for signs.
The kitchen servants came out in a line with jugs and trays.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Swapped Bride: Awakening of the True Princess are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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