The Crown Princess Faked Her Death and Married the Mercenary King novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Victor's Night
She gave the Prince no answer on the road.
She turned her back on him and walked up the pass in the gold robe, and left him kneeling in the mud for the generals to deal with.
But the words followed her all the way to the fortress, up the stairs, and down the dark corridor to the map room.
You have nothing.
She stopped in the doorway.
The room was empty and quiet.
A single lamp burned on the war table, the same table where he had pinned her wrist on the first day.
The map of the pass lay spread under it, her corrections still in red ink over his old black ones.
Do-gyeom came in behind her and shut the door.
He had taken the sling off.
He held the arm a little stiffly, and his hair hung loose, and he looked at her in the lamplight with his whole face open.
"What are you thinking?" he said.
"That he's wrong."
"He is."
"Come here."
He came.
She stood in the middle of the room.
She took the crown pin out of her hair, and then she began to unbind the gold robe.
She did it herself, one knot at a time, and let the layers fall away to the floor.
Heavy outer gold.
The cranes.
The pale one, until she stood in the white underlayer with the lamp behind her, and the thin cloth showed her shape.
"I have everything," she said.
"Tell me."
"I have a fort, and a friend, and you."
"I have my own name, and a hand that wrote the memorials, and a body that finally knows what it's for."
Her voice shook.
"I have all of it. And I have it because I walked out of a cage."
He was in front of her now.
His fingers traced the neckline of the underlayer, and she shivered.
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