After My Best Friend and I Transmigrated Into a Book, the System Made Us Seduce Each Other's Husbands novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The First Hand on the Page
Aurek did not sleep, because for the first time in forty tries he had something worth watching.
Elora lay on her side with one hand under her cheek, and the early light made her hair look brown and gold.
On his left wrist the mark was still there.
It had not faded in the night.
He had waited for it to vanish, as every good thing in the last forty tries had vanished, and it only sat on his skin, a coiled dragon in thin gold lines.
The System had not come back to her eyes.
She had gone to sleep with the red letters still ringing in her head, and she had not woken to a single one.
He took that as a gift and did not trust it.
Elora opened her eyes.
She looked at the mark first, and then at him.
"You're still here," she said.
"Yes."
"You stayed after."
"I would have stayed before, if you had ever let me."
She pushed herself up on one elbow.
The sheet slid from her shoulder, and he made himself look at her face.
"I want you to say it," she said. "All of it. The thing you said you couldn't."
He had said sentences to her in forty tries.
He had tried quick ones, kind ones, cruel ones meant to save her by driving her to the south road.
None of them had reached the part of her that listened.
"This is the forty-first time I have married you," he said.
She went very still.
"Every time, on the night you walk into the Ember Hall, I know your name. I know you will take the cup from the servant and lift it to your mouth. I take it from you because the wine in it is poison, and I have taken it from you forty-one times."
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