The War God Alpha's Arranged Bride novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: First Frost
The bed was empty beside me when I woke, and the sheet was still warm.
I lay and listened.
There was no alarm in the keep.
There was only the sound of the cooks banging pots two floors down, and Kjell's voice shouting about eggs.
I sat up.
The mark on my shoulder had closed to a neat crescent of pink, tender when I pressed it.
I touched it again anyway, because it made me smile.
I put on my grey wool dress, and my glasses, and my mother's brooch.
The door of our room stood wide open on the corridor, as I had left it.
I stopped on the threshold.
The iron bar was gone.
The brackets were still bolted to the wall on either side of the door, two empty black hooks, and nothing lay across them.
I looked at them for a long time.
Then I went down the stair, a little faster than I meant to, and across the hall, and into the kitchens.
It was warm in there and loud.
Six cooks and two scullions worked around the long hearth.
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