Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Dawn Phoenix
Torvald walked down the Ash Stair on his own feet.
He took it one step at a time, with a hand on the cold wall, and every step cost him.
Maelis walked beside him and did not hold his arm.
He had told her not to.
The clan lined both sides again, hundreds deep, in the gold light of the next morning.
This time they did not stare.
They stood with their heads high.
As the king passed, each of them struck a fist over the heart, and the sound ran down the mountain.
On the hundredth step his leg shook.
On the two-hundredth he stopped, and breathed, and she waited.
"You did this stair with a bleeding foot," he said, low.
"You are not bleeding."
"I am close."
He took the next step.
At the bottom, the great gate stood open.
The road beyond it was clear.
The river army had pulled back from the gate in the night, with its banners furled, and its spears stacked in carts.
The wagons of grain stood in a line along the wall, and the clan's children were already climbing on them.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Disabled Dragon King's Substitute Bride: Dawn Phoenix Awakening are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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