Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 58 of 64
Chapter 58: The Accession Court
Lorenz's POV
I heard her come in behind me, and I didn't take my hand away.
"Are you going to?" Anke said from the door.
"I wanted to know if my hand would do it."
"Would it?"
The iron wheel was cold under my palm.
One turn, and the steam would stop, and the beam would stop, and the water would start to rise in the mine.
In two years the springs over the mountain might go down again.
No more girls like the ones asleep in the town hall would be born.
Nobody would ever have to write a list.
"It might," I said. "That's what frightened me."
She came and stood beside me, and put her hand over mine on the wheel.
It was warm.
"The king told you not to dare," she said.
"The king's dead."
"So he can't stop you." She took my hand off the wheel and held it. "I can."
I let her.
We went to Kronhal with nine barges and a hundred and sixty mothers.
Anke fired the first boat, and the other eight came down behind us on the current, tied in a line.
When we tied up below the palace, the women carried their daughters up from the quay.
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