Chapter Twenty: The Night It Moved

She did not seize the crown. She refused it, out loud, before witnesses, and starved the harvest of the one thing it spent a whole second life steering her toward. And when the cheated thing tried to drag her back across the river, the King stepped into the doorway of the crossing with his teeth bared. "You come through me first." I have been waiting the whole book to write that line. If it reached you, please tell me below, and add this to your library, because the night just detonated and I update every single day. Thank you for reading. Your comments are the reason the next chapter comes faster.