They Gave My Crown to an Adopted Daughter. The Queen Raged novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Chancellor Falls

My father made a small grunting sound.

Then Fenn tore the knife out of him and flung it down onto the stones of the wall walk.

"The girl has killed the king!" he cried.

His soft voice cracked out over the courtyard.

"You saw it, my lords! The wolf's bastard has stabbed him in front of you all!"

Down on the cobbles three hundred faces tipped up.

The two red guards drew their swords and started for Marigold.

She did not run.

She dropped her knife.

She stepped in front of the king's chair, small and white in her bloodied cream silk, and spread both her arms.

"Don't touch him," she said.

"He did it," she told the guards, high and shaking, as if reporting a spilled cup. "Lord Fenn did it."

I took the one step I needed and caught Fenn's knife wrist in both my hands.

He was thin and old, and he was far stronger than he looked.

We wrenched at each other on the walk, and his pale eyes were an inch from mine.

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