I Married the Emperor to Kill Him novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Married Him Again
Isandor looked at the torn paper floating in the fountain.
Then he looked at Cassien, who still held the crown of Lisvaine in his hand.
"Ask me properly," he said.
The whole square was listening.
Cassien's ears went red.
"I just did."
"Again."
"Marry me, Isandor. In the Hall of Lamps, in front of everybody, with nobody's name on a treaty."
Isandor smiled, slowly, the smile that started in his eyes.
"Yes."
"And you don't touch me until the wedding."
Isandor's face fell so fast that Ilvessa laughed out loud on the steps.
"That is cruel."
"You did it to me for four days."
"You will ask first," Isandor said.
"We'll see who asks first, Majesty."
The Hall of Lamps had all thousand lamps lit for the second time that year.
Snow was falling past the high windows.
The court stood this time, nobody kneeling, gold and black down one side of the hall and Lisvaine blue down the other.
The forty stood behind Cassien in their blue coats, with the captain at their head.
The Princess of Ostrel had come south for it, in white.
She stood beside Ilvessa, the two of them whispering behind their hands, and the white-bearded duke looked nervous.
Maelis stood at Cassien's shoulder.
She had made him change his collar three times.
"Your face is doing it," she said.
"Doing what?"
"Going stupid."
"Let it," said Ilvessa, without turning around.
Isandor stood waiting at the top of the hall, under the lamps, in black and gold.
His arm was out of its sling.
He had something in his hands.
When Cassien came up the steps, he saw what it was.
It was the gold cord from the first wedding, cut through where the servants had cut it off their wrists that night, with the two frayed ends tied together in a clumsy knot.
"You kept it," Cassien said.
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