Oops, I Tamed the Commander Everyone Dreaded novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Sabine's Price
Sabine held a second paper in her hand, and it had come out of her sleeve.
"I took it from his study yesterday morning," she said to the yard.
"I read it twice, and I did not understand why my hands were cold."
"It is a ledger."
The garrison had stopped drumming.
Two thousand men leaned in to hear a woman in grey silk.
"For nine years the army has paid its haulers twenty-two crowns for a wagon of grain," she said.
"For nine years the Crown has paid eighteen more into the High Marshal's account for the same wagon."
"The difference went into the Crane estate. My uncle took it, and bought land."
A murmur ran through the ranks.
"The Northern Host was fed on that price. The haulers who refused it were ruined."
"One of them stood at Fort Karsk and said so, and was arrested for it."
She did not look at me.
"The betrothal I was promised to was not a marriage. It was a signature."
"The Commander, hollow and obedient, would have signed the Host's treasury over to my uncle's house on his wedding day."
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