Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Odalys

The climb back up was the longest of her life, and nobody offered her a chair.

Torvald met her at the top step.

He had come down from the wall with four men, and he sat very still, looking at her cheek.

"He struck you."

"He struck himself," said Maelis. "The marshal saw it."

Torvald's hand came up and touched the red mark with two fingers, so lightly it barely counted as touch.

His fingers were shaking.

"I will take his hand for that," he said.

"You will do nothing.

"Let the lords of Corrin look at it a while."

Before he could answer, something tugged at her sleeve.

It was the boy with the coal basket, out of breath, with soot on his nose.

"Lady Maelis, there's a girl crying."

"Where?"

"Under the captain's hall. I took coal there yesterday, and I heard her through the grate.

"I thought it was a ghost, so I did not say."

Maelis looked at Torvald.

Ruvane's eyes had gone to that hall, before he turned his horse.

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