The Fae King Can't Lie, and He Says He Wants Me novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Take It
"No," I said.
"Nia."
"No, Emrys. You don't get to say 'take it' and hand me a scroll."
"So I sign, and you walk out with a pension."
"I walk out alive, and free, and I never have to sit on that throne again."
"You want to leave?"
"I want you safe."
"You decided that in the night, too."
The words landed, and I watched them go in.
I was not sorry.
"You decided what I could carry while I was asleep," I said, "and you told the whole court a thing that wasn't so."
"You decided the cost of it for me, and now you're deciding the price of my name."
"Don't."
"The farmers are who I work for. They're not the Regent's to buy, and neither am I."
"You work for your mother."
"I work for the man in the wet cap. I'll work for him until he's dead."
"The Regent will take everything from you at Midwinter."
"Then she'll have to take it from me standing up."
He pressed the heel of his hand against his eye.
"I can't watch it," he said, so quietly I nearly lost it. "I can't stand beside you while they strip you."
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