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Chapter 25: What the Crypt Holds
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"It's only a bird."Caius exhales, shoulders dropping from where they'd gone rigid a moment ago, and crosses to the window to pull the latch, revealing nothing more sinister than a startled night heron that had landed on the sill and gone still at the sound of voices inside."A bird," I repeat, half laughing despite the adrenaline still thrumming through me. "After everything tonight, a bird nearly gave you a heart attack.""After everything tonight," he says, dragging a hand down his face, "I think I've earned the right to be slightly unreasonable about shadows." He shoos the heron off with a gentle wave and latches the window properly, checking it twice before finally turning back to me. "Go back to sleep. I mean it this time.""You say that like sleep is something I can simply decide to do.""I say it because I watched you talk a man down from a blade an hour ago, and somehow that composure hasn't failed you once tonight, but I know better than to think none of it touched you." He
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 27: A Mark That Shouldn't Match
Chapter 27: A Mark That Shouldn't Match"Say that again. Slowly."Caius takes the document from Garrison's hand, and I watch him read it twice before he looks up, confusion plain on his face where dread had been a moment ago."It's not what it sounded like," Garrison says quickly, apologetic. "I misspoke. Forgive me, my lord, I was rattled. Dr. Halloway's exact words were that the marker isn't natural. Not that Marcus isn't human."Iris crosses the garden toward us, still catching her breath from the ordeal with Marcus's blade, and takes the document from Caius with brisk, clinical focus replacing the fear from minutes ago."It's a compound signature," she says, scanning the page. "Not a bloodline trait. A residue certain sedatives leave behind in the blood when administered repeatedly over weeks, sometimes months. I found the same signature in Rowan's bloodwork this morning and assumed it came from a single recent exposure, the banquet night." Her brow furrows. "But Marcus's results
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 26: The Price Marcus Wants Paid
"Let me see them, or I start cutting."Marcus's voice carries clear and cold across the citadel courtyard, and the sight waiting for us when we arrive stops my heart cold in my chest. Nadia kneels in the torchlight, hands bound, a blade pressed flat against her throat, Iris beside her in the same condition, both women pale but defiant despite the danger."Let them go," Caius says, stepping forward, every line of him coiled tight enough to shatter."Not until Rowan steps closer." Marcus's eyes find me over Nadia's shoulder, something manic burning behind the usual polished calm. "I want him to see this properly. I want him to understand exactly what he's cost me tonight.""I've cost you nothing," I say, forcing steadiness into my voice despite the way my whole body wants to shake. "You did this to yourself, Marcus. Every choice, every lie, every drop of poison.""I did what needed doing." His grip tightens on the blade, and Nadia's breath catches audibly. "I was meant to inherit this H
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 25: What the Crypt Holds
"We're going now."Caius is already reaching for a cloak, voice brooking no argument, and I'm on my feet before Iris can object, adrenaline burning through the exhaustion that had tried to claim me a moment ago."Absolutely not." Iris steps directly into his path, arms crossed, every inch the physician refusing to be overruled. "He's been poisoned for hours, my lord. He needs rest, fluids, monitoring. A midnight ride to a crypt is the last thing either of them need.""My mother may be standing over my dead husband's grave right now, conspiring with the man who's been trying to kill my unborn child," Caius says, low and furious. "I am not leaving that unanswered until morning.""Then go. I'm coming with you." I meet Iris's eyes before she can argue. "I'm not sitting here wondering what you find while my own fate gets decided somewhere I can't see it.""Rowan—""I've survived worse than a carriage ride tonight," I say. "Let me survive this too, on my own feet, not locked in a room waiti
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 24: A Face I Trust Completely
"Lock every door in this wing. Now."Caius's voice cracks through the infirmary like a whip, and the guard is gone before the echo fades, boots pounding down the corridor to relay the order. I watch him crush Marcus's note in his fist, and for the first time all night I see something close to panic breaking through the composure he's worn like armor since this morning."A face you trust completely," I repeat. "That could mean anyone.""That's the point." He drags a hand down his face. "Garrison. Iris. Nadia. My own mother. He's chosen his words to make me suspect every person I'd normally turn to for help.""Or," I say slowly, "he's chosen them because one specific person actually deserves the suspicion, and the vagueness is meant to drown that name in noise."Caius goes still, turning the idea over. "You think there's a real name hiding inside the threat.""I think a man clever enough to drug someone slowly enough to avoid detection doesn't waste words for theater alone. He wants you
Reborn To Ruin The Sovereign Who Hates Me Chapter 23: What the Kitchens Hid
"Tell me she's lying."Caius is already moving down the corridor before I catch my breath, his hand locked around mine, pulling me along at a pace my body can barely keep."I wouldn't send for you over a lie," Garrison says, matching our stride. "Iris wouldn't either."We find her in the small infirmary off the east wing, standing over a tray of vials with her sleeves pushed up and her face carved from something grim and focused. She looks up when we enter and the relief in her expression doesn't quite erase the fear underneath it."Sit," she says to me, already reaching for my wrist to check my pulse. "Now, please.""Tell me what's wrong," I say, even as I let her guide me onto the examination table."Your bloodwork from an hour ago showed elevated markers consistent with a mild toxin. Not enough to be fatal on its own, but enough to explain the dizziness, the fainting, all of it." Her fingers press gently along my abdomen, checking, searching. "I didn't think much of it until I comp
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