Their Hidden Princess novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: Silver Ring
The whole school was in the yard by the time I got down there.
They'd covered him with a horse blanket at the foot of the west tower stair. One brown shoe stuck out from under it.
Varrick stood beside the body with his hands behind his back.
"A tragic fall," he was telling the masters. "Those stairs are steep in the dark. I've said so for weeks."
He looked up and saw me in the crowd.
He held my eyes a moment.
Then he went back to talking about the stairs.
Lysander found me by the well.
"His case is gone," I said. "Whatever he carried the powder in. It's gone."
"Then the proof's in your father," Lysander said quietly. "In his blood. Eight months of it."
"The test."
He nodded. "A few drops. And silver."
"He won't believe me, Lysander. He said so to my face."
"Then don't ask him to believe you." Lysander's mouth went thin. "Ask him to watch."
The King's door was guarded now, by two of his own men in Aldermoor white.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Their Hidden Princess are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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