Reborn as the Prince the Witch Stabbed, I Bought Her Off the Pyre novel · Chapter 56 of 64

Chapter 56: Father

We were at Velde in two days and a night, with forty mothers asleep on the cargo and Anke at the fire the whole way.

Gerd met us on the landing.

He'd been crying, and he didn't try to hide it.

"He's still here," he said. "He waited. He said he'd wait."

The king was in my bed in the lodge, propped up on every pillow in the house.

He looked smaller than I'd ever seen him, and gray to the lips.

The healer sat on one side of the bed, and Lotte sat on the floor on the other, holding his hand.

"There you are," the king said when he saw me. "Did you go and win something?"

"Hessa," I said. "A bridge."

"Good." He shut his eyes. "Sit down, Lorenz. I don't have long, and I want to say things."

I sat on the edge of the bed.

Anke came in behind me and stood with her hand on my shoulder.

Gerd shut the door, and then there was nobody in the room with him who didn't know what I was.

"The healer says it's my heart," the king said. "She can mend almost anything, but not a thing that's worn out."

"I'm sorry," the healer said.

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