I Sold My Blood to Pay My Sister's Debt, and the Vampire King Who Bought Me Swore I'd Be His Queen or His Ruin novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Challenge
The great houses along the walls didn't make a sound.
Isadora walked around the end of my table, trailing one finger along the black wood.
She stopped behind the king's chair.
"Kaelen," she said fondly. "You look well. Warm. It suits you."
He didn't turn his head.
"You're under an Eastern banner in my hall," he said. "Take it off, or leave."
"I'm under the Eastern banner because you threw me out of mine." She came on around the table to my end. "I didn't come for you, darling. I came for her."
She stood in front of me.
She smelled of road dust and gold silk and, underneath, of my blood.
"I've stood in the sun seven times since you last saw me," she said. "On the east road. In the Eastern envoy's garden, with his whole court watching from the windows. They wept, Aveline. Grown lords, four hundred years old, weeping at a rose in daylight."
She held up her left hand and turned the iron ring in the candlelight.
"One taste each," she said. "That's all it took. Now they'd burn their own cities for you."
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