After My Husband Abandoned Me, I Rule All Dragons novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Spring Term
The ice went off the black lake in the second week of spring.
The same week, the school bell rang for the first time.
It hung at the top of the Voice Tower, small and silver and a little lopsided.
The Highcrag bellfounder had never cast one from a torc before.
It had a voice, and Dorrit said it was the ugliest bell she'd ever heard.
She rang it every morning at six anyway.
The forty benches were full by the second day.
Then the stairs.
Grooms from the Eyrie, with the lanky under-groom at the front, still picking straw out of their hair from the ride.
Shepherds from every valley in the Greyspine.
A widow from the river villages who'd lost two sons to the burn and wanted, she said, to be useful to somebody else's.
Two of the Highcrag cooks, who argued with ours about barley within the hour.
And the prince, in a plain wool coat, sitting on the end of the front bench with his knees up round his ears.
On his first morning, Dorrit handed him a shovel.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of After My Husband Abandoned Me, I Rule All Dragons are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
← Chapter 29 · All chapters · Chapter 31 →
Want to keep talking to characters like these? Chat with AI romance characters: AI Boyfriend · AI Girlfriend · Dark Romance · Fantasy Romance · BL (Boys’ Love) · Billionaire Boyfriend · Mafia Boyfriend · Possessive Boyfriend · Hockey Boyfriend · Older Boyfriend · K-Drama Boyfriend · Anime Boyfriend · Vampire Boyfriend · Werewolf Boyfriend · Demon Boyfriend · Fae Romance · GL (Girls’ Love) · Anime Girlfriend · Goth & Alt Girlfriend · Gamer Girlfriend · Tsundere Girlfriend · Fantasy Girlfriend