The Saintess and the Demon King novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Bound
Isabeau couldn't sit still.
Wenna had locked herself in the tower room with a candle, a pen and the ledger, and told her through the door to go away.
Isabeau had walked the Citadel twice.
She had checked the hospital, where half the wounded were already on their feet.
She had checked the garden, where the white blossoms had spread to the river.
Now she stood in the bedchamber in her shift with her hands shaking, and she could not stop thinking.
What if Wenna found nothing?
What if she found something terrible?
What if Isabeau was a lie, and the light was a lie, and everything she had healed was a lie?
Veyron came in from the war council and stopped in the doorway.
He took one look at her and shut the door behind him.
"Isabeau."
"I can't stop thinking," she said.
"I can see that."
"Make me stop."
He crossed the floor slowly.
"How?"
She had never asked for this.
She knew what she wanted, though.
She had wanted it since the first night, when he pinned her wrists to the pillow and her whole body went loose with relief.
She took her white Temple sash from the chair.
It was the long silk one, the plain sash she had worn at her waist since she was fifteen, the sign of an untouched Saintess.
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