Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie novel · Chapter 37 of 40

Chapter 37: The Bond He Cannot Rewrite

Sera closed the ledger against his palm and held it there.

Kael did not lift his hand. The leather was still warm from Eln's table. She had carried it out of the council room in front of the scribe, and no one had stopped her, because the panel had ruled the pages held and no one had yet thought to rule on the book.

'One question before you touch me,' she said. 'Who carried the reading to you?'

He looked at the ledger, then at her. His thumb moved along the edge of the cover and stopped.

'A woman from the market town,' he said. 'She came to my study three days before the ceremony. She said the elders had commissioned a reading on my bond and that the result was false.'

'Did she give a name?'

'She gave a seal.' He said it flatly. 'I never asked for a name. That is the part I have to live with.'

Sera heard the thought under it before she chose to. He was not hiding anything. He had been over this hour a hundred times in his own head and found the same wall every time, and the wall was his own signature on the commission line.

She turned the ledger toward the lamp and let him read the payer's line with her. It was not Lirien's hand. It was older, ruled and careful, and the routing column beside it listed an account she had seen before, in the archive, on the founding household's oldest pages.

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