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CHAPTER 148 — WHO DID THIS?
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BRIDE FOR RENT IS MY FATED MATE. CHAPTER 149—THE HOLDING ROOM.
THIRD PERSON POVSeraphina had been in the holding room for four days.It was made of stone walls, a narrow bed, and a small window set too high to see anything except sky. A guard outside the door at all hours. Meals brought and left without conversation.She had not slept much.She sat mostly on the edge of the bed with her hands between her knees and listened to the sounds of the house moving around her. She was in the particular stillness that comes when a person has done the thing they decided to do and now there is only waiting to find out what it cost.She knew they had found the bottle.She had known the moment Rowan appeared in her doorway and told her to turn out her pockets that it was over. She had hidden it well but not well enough, and she had always known somewhere underneath all the planning that there was no version of this that ended cleanly for her.She had done it anyway.She sat with that.On the first day she had gone over it in her head. Every step. The kitchen.
BRIDE FOR RENT IS MY FATED MATE. CHAPTER 148 — WHO DID THIS?
THIRD PERSON POVRowan moved through the main house like a man with a clock in his chest.He started in the kitchen.Osa was the first person he found. She was awake as the commotion of the healer being called had traveled fast through the house — and she was standing near the counter with her hands clasped together, her face tight with worry."The Queen's morning tray," Rowan said. "Who touched it today?""I prepared it myself," Osa said. "Same as every morning.""Did you leave the kitchen at any point between preparing it and carrying it up?"Osa opened her mouth and closed it. Her brow folded. "I stepped out briefly. Maybe five minutes. There was a noise in the back corridor, so I thought one of the younger staff had dropped something.""And the tray was unattended during that time."It wasn't a question.Osa's face went pale. "Yes," she whispered. "But I wasn't gone long. I didn't think—""Did anyone pass through the kitchen before you left or when you returned?"She thought about
BRIDE FOR RENT IS MY FATED MATE. CHAPTER 147 — THE FEVER
THIRD PERSON POVRebecca began to feel weak by the afternoon of the second day.It started as tiredness. It sat behind her eyes and made the light feel slightly too bright and the sounds around her slightly too sharp. She had been in a long council meeting that morning and had assumed it was that — the meeting had run over by two hours, and she had not eaten properly beforehand.She drank water and kept going.By evening, the tiredness had become something heavier. A warmth at the back of her neck that was not comfortable warmth and a slowness in her limbs that she had to work against to move normally.She said nothing at dinner.Donald noticed anyway."You're quiet," he said."Tired," she said. "Long day."He looked at her with a particular attention that seemed like something was off. She met his eyes and gave him a small reassuring smile and he let it go, though she could see from the way he watched her for the rest of the meal that he had not entirely let it go.She went to bed ea
BRIDE FOR RENT IS MY FATED MATE. CHAPTER 146— THE PLAN
THIRD PERSON POVSeraphina started small by operating carefully and not with big moves. She tried not to announce herself or leave trails that would cause people to notice. She started paying attention differently.Her anger no longer focused on Rebecca's face or her relationship with Donald or the things that fed the bitterness which she had been doing involuntarily for weeks, and it had gotten her nowhere except angrier.She started paying attention to patterns. To the shape of Rebecca's days. What she ate and when. Who prepared it? Who carried it to her? Which guard stood at which door and at what hour? Which rooms Rebecca moved through alone and which ones she was always accompanied in?She did this quietly over the course of two weeks.She was still the obedient attendant every morning, still sorting the correspondence, answered when spoken to and left when dismissed. Nobody watching her would have seen anything different. She had always been good at keeping her face arranged.
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THIRD PERSON POVThe days that followed were good ones.Rebecca woke up each morning without dread.That was the simplest way she could describe the change in her life, and also the most honest one. For so long, waking up had carried a weight to it — an awareness, even before she was fully conscious, of something to be careful about. Something to manage. Some version of herself she needed to assemble before she could face the day. She had carried that feeling for so long she had stopped noticing it was there, the way you stop noticing the sound of a river once you've lived beside it long enough.Now it was gone.She woke up in the mornings in the large, warm room that was hers and she lay still for a moment and listened to the territory outside the window and felt the absence of that weight like a physical thing. Like a door somewhere in her chest that had been shut for years had been quietly, finally, opened.She did her work. She attended to the territory's correspondence and disput
BRIDE FOR RENT IS MY FATED MATE. Chapter 144—Finally Free.
THIRD PERSON POVShe had the fire going and a tray brought in with food he hadn't asked for but would need, water, something warm to drink.He sat in the chair nearest to the fire and leaned forward with his elbows on his knees, his hands loose between them, and his eyes on the flames. He had not spoken since they came inside.Rebecca sat across from him and did not push.This was something she had learned about him — that he was a man who came to words on his own schedule, and that the worst thing you could do when he was processing something heavy was to reach in and try to pull it out before he was ready. So she sat with him in the quiet and let the fire do its work and waited.After a while, he reached forward and picked up the cup she had set on the table beside him and drank from it slowly.Then he looked at her."I told you before I left that I needed to take care of something," he said."Yes," she said."I need to tell you what it was." He set the cup down. "All of it."So he
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BRIDE FOR RENT IS MY FATED MATE. Chapter 94—Donald Smith’s Wife.
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