The Hidden Route Picked the Friend novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Rehearsal
Briony opened the bathhouse door two inches and found Clem on the other side in a hooded cloak.
"Noon," Clem whispered.
"The archive.
Anselm knows you're meeting me, and he asked to come."
"Does he know the rest?"
"Not yet."
Her eyes flicked past Briony's shoulder to the steam and the man in the towel behind her, and her ears went pink.
"I'll tell him myself.
Go to bed."
At noon the archive was empty except for dust.
It was a long cold room lined with shelves of rolled charts.
In the middle stood a table big enough for twelve, scarred with ink.
Clem sat at one end with her bundle of pages.
Anselm sat at the other with his hands folded, as pale as the paper.
Briony took the chair at his right.
Sevrin stood against the wall by the door until Briony looked at him, and then he came and sat beside her.
The Prince glanced at him, and at her, and cleared his throat.
"I will begin," Anselm said, "by saying that I've known about the glasshouse for ten days.
I have said nothing, and that is the end of that subject."
Sevrin inclined his head.
"Thank you, Your Highness."
"Do not call me that in here.
Miss Wray has something to tell me, I believe."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of The Hidden Route Picked the Friend are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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