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The Death of Ramona ll

Serena's POV Ramona did not soften her words, and she did not look away."And because I want you to hear it from someone who is not trying to get anything from you."She shifted her weight, and the sword shifted with her, and she sucked a sharp breath through her teeth and kept her palms on the door.The sword moved with her, and I saw her face go white, and then steady again."I heard what you did at the river," Ramona pressed on, and her eyes never left mine. "The day the boy fell through the ice. The day no one moved. The day a human jumped in after him.""He is a child," I protested, and my hands opened helplessly at my sides. "Anyone would have done it.""No one did it," Ramona corrected, and her voice turned fierce even through the blood on her lip.She had one thing left in her, and she was spending it on correcting me."Not the Lycans. Not the nobles. Not the guards. A human did. A human this court calls a whore. A human who was sold to us in chains. And you did it without he

Chapter 102: Watching the wall

Alejandro's POVAnd this is how I came to be standing in that doorway.I have replayed it a thousand times since, and I still do not know how I got from the courtyard to that room without falling down.I stood in the courtyard and did everything a king is supposed to do, and none of it mattered, because the bond had gone tight and cold in my chest.Snow settled on my shoulders, and it melted where it touched the wound in my side, and the blood on my sword had gone tacky in the cold.The sword was still in my hand, and I had not sheathed it, and I did not remember deciding to keep it drawn.The eastern wall still burned, and the flames threw long orange light across the courtyard, and the bell above the gate kept ringing.The bell would not stop, and no one had thought to cut the rope, and it rang on and on like something with no intention of ever stopping.And I did not turn my head toward the gate to look for her.I did not need to look. I could feel her through the bond, thin and fa

Chapter 103: The Grief 1

Alejandro’s POV The cold worked its way up from my boots, and I let it, and I did not shift my weight once.The fire on the eastern wall collapsed a section of roof.The crash sent a wave of sparks into the courtyard, and the survivors flinched back together like a single body.Sparks scattered across the courtyard, and the survivors shifted away in a wave, and Diego moved them back into a tighter line using nothing but his voice.Then the gate opened, and the guard came back alone.He was pale, and out of breath, and he held his sword low at his side, and there was blood on his tunic that did not belong to him.He was swaying a little on his feet, and he did not seem to know it, and I did not tell him to sit.He stopped in front of me and bowed his head and did not lift it."Where is she?" I asked."I could not find her, my king," the guard answered, and his voice was thin."I searched the east hall. I searched the north corridor. I searched the west wing. The castle is burning from

Chapter 104: The Grief 2

Alejandro’s POVI stepped over his body and kept moving.I reached the library. The door was splintered and shoved aside, and the room inside smelled like blood and smoke, and I knew she had been here, because I could feel her in the air the way you feel a room that someone has just left.The air was warm and wrong, and I knew she had been here, and I knew she was not here now.A young servant girl was lying behind a fallen shelf, breathing, barely. I did not stop for her. The bond pulled me past her toward the far wall, and I went where it pulled.I found the service corridor behind the library. I had never walked it. Ramona had never shown it to me. I did not care. I followed the pull.I found the blood trail on the floor.The drops were small and close together, and I knew the pattern, and I knew the woman who made it, and I walked faster.I followed it, low door by low door, until the corridor ended at a tapestry and a hidden door.The door was open. Warm candlelight spilled out o

Chapter 105: The first alarm 1

Serena's POVAlejandro was still looking at the walking stick on the floor when I finally stood up."Someone was here," Alejandro murmured, and he did not take his eyes off it. He said it quietly, the way a man speaks when he does not want the room to hear him."Someone moved these things while we were in the courtyard."I looked at the stick, and at the shawl on the table, and I did not have anything to say. I only knew that I did not want to leave her in this room, not now, not while someone I could not name had already been here."I do not want to leave her," I told Alejandro, and I did not take my hand off Ramona."We cannot leave her here," Alejandro said, and he looked at the small room around us, at the wall, at the hidden door. "This room will be searched when Diego finds the traitor. I will not have her body treated like evidence.""She is already gone," I argued, and my voice caught on the word. The word sat in the air between us, and neither of us took it back. "What does i

Chapter 106: The first alarm 2

Serena's POV She turned to me."Thirty-one people in this hall, my lady," Beatriz said, and she gestured at the room behind her with a tilt of her chin. "Fourteen of them can hold a weapon. The rest are wounded, children, or too old to stand for more than a few minutes at a time.""I am not a soldier," I told her."You do not have to be," Beatriz countered, and she stepped closer. She said it with the certainty of a woman who had already decided what I was. "Ramona trained you for exactly this. I saw her do it. She was not training you to survive this castle. She was training you to run it."I looked at Alejandro, but Alejandro did not speak for a moment.Then he looked at me and gave me one small nod."Do it," Alejandro said.I turned back to Beatriz."Bring me a map of the castle," I told her, and I set my shoulders. "And every servant who knows the passages behind the walls."Beatriz smiled, and it was not a kind smile. It was the smile of a woman who had been waiting for someone

Chapter 107: The knife

Serena's POVI had never held a knife in my life with the intention of using it, and now there was a man in front of me who was smiling at me the way my father used to smile before he hit me.The smile was slow and patient, and it had never once been about me.The knife was small, and it had come from the belt of a wounded guard who could not use it, and its blade was short. My grip on the handle was wrong, and I knew it was wrong, and I did not know how to make it right. Ramona's walking stick was in my other hand, and I had it raised across my body like a shield, and I knew that was useless too.My heart was beating so hard I could feel it in my throat. It made a sound in my ears like a drum that someone else was playing.The first rebel rounded the corner and stopped when he saw me.He was bigger than me, and broader across the chest, and he had a sword instead of a knife, and he looked at me the way you look at something small and helpless that has wandered into your path. His mou

Chapter 108: The first kill

Serena's POVThe knife went in before I decided to use it, and after that everything happened in a blur. The blur had no edges to it, and it had no time in it, and it swallowed the next minute whole.I was pressed flat against the corridor wall, and the rebel's forearm was across my collarbone, and his breath was in my face. His grip on the front of my shirt had not loosened, and the knife I had put into his side had not made him let go either. The stone behind me was scraping my shoulder blades through my tunic, and my heels scrabbled against the floor without finding it."He is not even feeling it," I thought, and my throat closed around the words. "He is not even feeling it, and I am going to die here." The thought was small and cold, and it would not go away, and it would not help."You are going to be the first one," the rebel said, and he leaned in close enough that I could smell wine on his breath. He said it quietly, the way a man says a promise he intends to keep. "When they

Chapter 109: The ringing in the ear

Serena's POV Beatriz nodded once, and she did not argue. She turned and moved toward the alcove, and her voice went up in a way that made the children move without a single question.A sound came from inside the alcove. It was a scrape, like stone against stone. It was not the door, it was the wall.I turned my head, and saw that in the far corner of the alcove, behind a hanging tapestry, a narrow panel had slid open. A servant passage. One of the ones Ramona had shown me in a lesson weeks ago, on a day when I was still only a sacrifice and she was already teaching me how to survive this castle.I had not understood, that day, why she was showing me. But I understood it now, and there was no time to be grateful for it.A rebel stepped through the opening. He was smaller than the ones in the corridor, and he had a dagger in his hand. His eyes went first to the children, and then to Beatriz. He looked at the children the way a man looks at something he has already decided to do somethi

Chapter 110: Alejandro’s storm I

Alejandro's POVI had seen him fight once, in the arena, with rules and a crowd and a king's restraint.This was not that, and the difference was in the blood on the floor.The corridor outside the great hall was narrow and cold, and the two torches in their iron brackets had burned down to nubs that guttered every time a draft pushed in from the broken window at the far end.A rebel's blade had just opened my side, and the blood was running hot down my hip and into my belt line.I could feel the wet edge of the cut under my palm when I pressed my hand there.The man who had cut me was still in front of me.He was young and lean, and he held his sword in a way that told me he had used it before, and he was smiling at me the way a boy smiles when he has just done something he is proud of.Four more stood behind him, and the corridor was too narrow for more than two to come at me at once, so that was the only thing keeping me alive.I counted them the way I counted everything, but the c

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