《When I’m Gone, You Love》全部章節：第 111 章 - 第 120 章

Beatrice's POVI came back to consciousness in pieces.Pain first. A deep, spreading ache that ran from my shoulder through my ribs and down into my hip, pulsing with every heartbeat. Then sound, muffled voices and the clink of metal instruments and the steady beep of a monitor somewhere near my head. My eyes flew open.A physician stood beside the bed, an older woman with grey hair pulled back and calm, steady hands. She was reviewing a chart and hadn't noticed I was awake. Machines beeped beside me. An IV ran into my arm. The room was small and bright and smelled like a hospital, and I was alive, and none of that mattered because the only thing I needed to know was whether my baby was still alive too."Save my child." The words tore out of me before I could think about them, raw and desperate and loud enough to make the physician drop her chart. "Please. The baby. Save my child."The physician looked at me. Her face shifted from surprise to understanding in a single beat, and she m

Cedrick's POVI raised my hand over Neah's broken body and called the magic again.This time I didn't aim to hurt. I aimed to finish. The power gathered in my palm, dense and hot, and Neah must have felt it because the keening stopped and she went very still on the floor.The study door slammed open.Kennedy crossed the room faster than I'd ever seen her move. She put herself between me and Neah."Stop," Kennedy said. "Cedrick, stop.""Move.""If you kill her, Lawrence will declare war. Every family allied with his house will follow. You will tear this kingdom apart over a slave, Cedrick. Is that what you want?"My hand stayed raised. The magic hummed in my palm, and Neah lay curled on the floor behind Kennedy with her broken wrist pressed against her chest and her wolf barely alive inside her, and the part of me that wanted to finish what I'd started was louder than anything Kennedy was saying.But Kennedy was right. I knew she was right. Lawrence had thirty years of alliances stitch

Cedrick's POV Beatrice went to the new residence because she had no other option. I had made sure of that. The quarters she'd been using at the palace were reassigned within the hour.Martin drove her. Henry told me, despite my order not to report on her, because Henry had decided that some information was too important to withhold regardless of what I'd said. I didn't punish him for it. I filed the knowledge away and let it sit, because punishing Henry for doing his job would have been petty, and because the image of Martin escorting Beatrice to her new home while I sat in my study signing military dispatches was punishment enough.Henry also told me that Martin had spent the drive trying to persuade Beatrice to give in to me. To stop fighting, stop resisting, stop making things harder than they neede

Cedrick's POVBeatrice went to the new residence because she had no other option. I had made sure of that. The quarters she'd been using at the palace were reassigned within the hour.Martin drove her. Henry told me, despite my order not to report on her, because Henry had decided that some information was too important to withhold regardless of what I'd said. I didn't punish him for it. I filed the knowledge away and let it sit, because punishing Henry for doing his job would have been petty, and because the image of Martin escorting Beatrice to her new home while I sat in my study signing military dispatches was punishment enough.Henry also told me that Martin had spent the drive trying to persuade Beatrice to give in to me. To stop fighting, stop resisting, stop making things harder than they needed to be. The advice surprised me coming from a man who had spent months positioning himself as my rival.The residence was a townhouse on the eastern edge of the palace grounds, close en

Beatrice's POVI was in the kitchen, picking up the chocolate dessert Clara left on the counter. Henry knocked once to get my attention. He stood in the doorway and waited until I looked up, and the expression on his face told me something had happened that I wasn't going to like."Cedrick was injured," he said. "Saving you."I set down the spoon. "What do you mean, saving me?"Henry told me about Kennedy. He had taken twenty lashes across his back so that Kennedy couldn't touch me.I met Martin in the garden behind the residence the following afternoon. Clara was napping, and the guards Cedrick had posted at the front door didn't cover the back wall, which had a gate that opened onto a narrow lane I'd found during my first day of confinement.Martin was waiting on the other side. He leaned against the wall with his arms crossed and his wolf pressed calm and steady, and he looked at my face and didn't ask how I was feeling because the answer was obvious."I've started investigating y