He Broke Our Betrothal at the Midwinter Ball, So I Wed the Grand Duke Before Dawn novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: The Pledge
"What did you take in year two?" Thessaly asked.
They stood in the empty corridor behind the Hall of Peers, with the cheering muffled through the doors.
Eskil did not answer at once, and she watched him decide.
It was Lysander who answered, from behind them.
"Grain," the Emperor said. "And silver. The great famine."
He had followed them out with no guards, and he looked ten years older than he had that morning.
"Thessaly, I owe you this at the least."
"In the second winter, the Frostmarch harvest failed."
"There was nothing to eat in the North, and the Treasury loaned the Duke forty thousand measures of grain and a hundred thousand crowns," he said.
"The Keep itself is pledged for it."
"Frostmarch Keep, the lands, the seat."
"It falls due at midsummer," he said.
The corridor tilted.
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