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Chapter 7: The Prince's Terms
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I managed perhaps half the plate before Seraphina declared I looked "thoroughly wrung out" and called for someone to show me to my chambers. I didn't argue. My whole body had started to feel like it belonged to someone else, someone who'd had a much longer, much stranger day than I had."Elias will see you settled," Seraphina said, as a young man stepped into the doorway at her summons. "He's been assigned to your wing. If you need anything at all, day or night, ask for him."I looked at him properly for the first time. He was younger than I'd expected for someone trusted with a royal bride, maybe thirty, with dark hair and quiet green eyes and the kind of unremarkable, pleasant face you'd forget within a minute of looking away. He wore plain servant's grey, no house colours, nothing to mark him as anything other than what he seemed: ordinary."Miss Everhart," he said, and bowed, briefly and correctly. His voice was low, careful, the sort of voice trained not to draw attention to itse
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Seraphina led me down a corridor lined with portraits, their subjects all pale and beautiful and watching me pass with painted eyes, until we reached a smaller dining room than the hall I'd just left. A single long table had been set with more silverware than I'd ever used in my life."Sit, sit," she said, waving me toward a chair near the head of the table. "I'll have something brought up. You look like you're about to fall over.""I might," I admitted.She laughed, a real laugh, and swept out to speak with someone in the hall, leaving me alone with the portraits and the candlelight and my own thundering heart.I hadn't been alone for more than a minute when the door opened again."You're new," said a voice, warm and easy, and I turned to find a young man leaning against the doorframe like he owned it. He looked close to my own age, maybe a little older, with dark blond hair pushed back carelessly and blue-grey eyes that crinkled at the corners like he found the whole world faintly a
The Vampire Prince's Human Bride Has No Heartbeat Chapter 7: The Prince's Terms
He stopped an arm's length away, close enough that I had to tilt my head back to meet his eyes, and didn't bother with any of the words the room seemed to be waiting for."So this is her," he said, as if I weren't standing right in front of him."Adrian." Seraphina's voice carried a warning, light but unmistakable. "This is Lily Everhart. Your bride.""I'm aware of who she is." His eyes moved over me the way his father's had, but there was nothing warm in it, nothing curious. It was the look you give something you've been told to accept and have decided, privately, that you won't. "I was told she'd arrive this evening. I wasn't told I'd be expected to stand here and smile about it.""No one asked you to smile," I said.It came out before I could stop it. The hall went very quiet. Somewhere behind me I heard Seraphina draw a short breath, and the King's mouth curved with something that might have been amusement or might have been interest.Adrian's gaze sharpened. "You have opinions."
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The doors opened onto light and warmth, and for a moment I forgot to be afraid.The Grand Hall was full of candles, hundreds of them, throwing gold across a floor so polished I could see my own pale reflection in it. Nobles lined the walls in dark, elegant clothes, watching without whispering. At the far end, on a raised dais, two thrones waited, and the man and woman seated in them were already looking at me."Miss Everhart," the steward announced, and every head in the hall turned at once.I made myself walk. One foot, then the other, down a floor that felt twice as long as it should have been, until I reached the base of the dais and remembered, at the last second, to curtsy."Rise," said the King.I straightened. King Lucien Veyr looked nothing like I'd imagined, and everything like what I feared. He wasn't a monster in a story. He was elegant, composed, his hair a deep silver-black, his eyes a red so dark it looked almost human by candlelight. He smiled at me, easy and warm, the
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The carriage door opened, and cold air slid in around my ankles.A steward was waiting outside, thin and grey-haired, dressed in the deep blue of the household staff. He bowed to Hallis first, then to me, brief and correct."Miss Everhart. Welcome to Veyr Castle. I'm to bring you through to the Grand Hall, where Their Majesties will receive you." He glanced at Hallis. "Envoy privileges end at the gate, I'm afraid. You may wait in the outer hall."Hallis's jaw tightened, but he nodded. "Of course." He looked at me. "You'll be fine, Miss Everhart."I wanted to ask him to stay. I didn't. I climbed down from the carriage instead, gripping the frame longer than I needed to, and made myself let go.The courtyard was enormous, black paved stone ringed by walls so high they blotted out the last of the sky. Torches burned along every side, and the air smelled of smoke and cold metal, and beneath that, faintly, of something sweeter I couldn't name."This way, please," the steward said, and star
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"Down," Hallis said again, and I dropped low in my seat without thinking.The sound came again, closer, and the driver called out something short and sharp. Then, just as fast as it had risen, it stopped. The birds settled. The trees went still.I stayed frozen, waiting for the world to end.It didn't."It's gone," Hallis said after a moment, straightening slowly. He let out a breath through his nose. "A forest hound. They roam close to the road sometimes. Nothing more.""That didn't sound like a hound.""No," he admitted. "It didn't." He didn't offer anything else, and I didn't push. My hands were still shaking, and I pressed them flat against my knees until the shaking stopped.We came out from under the trees a short while later, and the light returned all at once, grey and ordinary, like nothing had happened at all.By the time we reached the outer walls of Bloodmoon City, the sun was low and orange behind the hills, and an escort was waiting to meet us. Six riders in dark cloaks
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