Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Her Father's Face
The rope bit into her wrists before she thought of fighting.
Two soldiers held her arms, and a third wound the cord tight.
They were not gentle, whatever their king had said.
Above her, a roar went up on the gate wall, and then a hush as someone, maybe the grey elder, raised a hand.
The white banner still hung over the road.
Nobody on the wall could draw a blade, and Maelis knew it.
She knew the other thing too.
Nobody was coming down three hundred steps for her.
She had said she would come back, and she meant to do it on her own.
She lifted her head and looked up the long black stair.
Four hundred dragons stood along it, silent, and she remembered every one of them going down on a knee in the smoke.
She had never in her life been wanted by so many people at once.
Something in her chest turned over and woke.
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