Money-Minded and Plot-Aware novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Her Own Answer
I went back to the black book at midnight, alone, with the library door shut behind me.
Hadrian stood on the other side of it.
I had asked him to, and he had agreed without a word.
The lamp lit the last leaf, which I had skipped three times because it was blank.
It was not blank now.
Under my lamp the brown ink was rising up through the paper.
The words said: The one who answers pays what she carried across.
"What did I carry?" I said aloud, to nobody.
The page answered, in smaller letters.
What you knew.
I sat down very slowly.
I had carried across exactly one thing, and it was not my body or my name.
It was the book itself, sixty-three chapters stored in my head, every beat of Rosamund's doom and Sorrel's rise.
It was the thing that had saved me.
It was the only thing I owned that nobody had given me.
The cost was the plot.
If I wanted to speak to the other woman, I had to give it back.
I thought about it for as long as it takes to boil a kettle.
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