The Villainess Woke Up Mid-Confession novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Forty-One

"Forgive me, Majesty," Damien said into the silence. "My hand slipped."

A footman dropped to his knees with a napkin.

Damien stepped back from the spreading wine, and for a moment he looked down at it.

Then he smiled at the throne.

"What wonderful news. The man who knows the truth at last."

"Yes," said the Emperor. "Isn't it."

He turned his heavy gaze on Kyrian.

"Will he name the seller at the Assize?"

"He'll name his price first, Majesty. He wouldn't name it to me. He says he'll name it to the lady whose neck is on the block."

Every head in the ballroom turned to Ravielle again.

"Then she'd better go and hear it," the Emperor said. "Tonight, before anyone else has the chance to pay him a visit. Captain of the guard, take them down."

The palace cells were under the east wing, forty steps down a stair that sweated in the cold.

Ravielle went down them in crimson silk and sapphires, holding her skirts out of the wet, with Kyrian behind her in his mud.

At the bottom of the stair he caught her wrist in the dark.

His thumb went once across her pulse, the way it had in his study the first night.

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