All Chapters of ACCEPT ME OH KINGDOM : Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Chapter 61 Seven nights.The same ceiling. The same crack in the plaster she'd counted a hundred times without meaning to.Elara threw back the blankets.If I can't sleep, I can at least stop pretending to try.She dressed quickly and slipped into the corridor.The palace was quiet at this hour, but a thin line of light still burned beneath Kael's study door.She didn't bother knocking."You're not sleeping either."Kael didn't look up from the papers scattered across his desk."I don't have time to sleep.""That's a lie. You have exactly as much time as I do, and neither of us is using it well."That finally got his attention."Elara""I need answers. About the judgment.""It's the same ceremony we've discussed a dozen times.""Then discuss it a thirteenth."She stepped farther into the room."What happens if the Moonstone rules against you?"Kael slowly set down his quill."We follow the law.""That's not an answer.""It's the only one I have.""No. It's a deflection dressed up as

Chapter 63 Yssa was grinding herbs when Elara burst through the door.“Who sealed me?”The pestle stopped.Yssa looked up slowly.“Elara”“Who sealed me?”“Close the door.”“No.”“Elara.”“I've spent eighteen years being told there was nothing inside me. My wolf just told me the seal was never meant to last this long.” Elara stepped closer. “She said someone forgot to finish what they started.”Yssa's face tightened.“I want a name.”“It isn't that simple.”“It is to me.”Elara dropped the medallion onto the table.“She also said someone who loved me sealed me.”Yssa stared at it.Then she looked away.Elara's anger sharpened.“You know.”Yssa said nothing.“You know who did it.”“I know who performed the ritual.”Elara froze.“You've known this whole time?”“I witnessed it.”“Then tell me.”“I can't.”“Why?”Yssa finally met her eyes.“Because I was ordered never to.”“By whom?”Silence.“Yssa.”“Someone whose authority didn't come from the crown.”Elara's pulse jumped.“The Wardens

Chapter 65 The seal on the parchment stopped Torin cold.Military reassignment. Effective in three days.The order bore the signature of an administrative officer he'd never met and cited an authorization code he didn't recognize.Torin read it twice.Someone wants me gone before the ceremony.He folded the parchment and slipped it inside his coat.I won't tell Elara. She has enough weighing on her already.An hour later, Elara found him in the eastern corridor, reviewing the watch schedule with far more concentration than the task required."What's wrong?""Nothing.""You've read that same line four times.""It's a long schedule.""Torin."He looked up.She had crossed her arms, watching him with the quiet patience that usually meant she had already figured out half the truth."I've spent months learning to notice when people are hiding things from me," she said. "You're hiding something."Torin hesitated.It was enough."Show me."He handed her the parchment.Her eyes moved across

Chapter 67 Kael found her by the window, arms wrapped around herself despite the mild night air.The healing wing was quieter now, but Elara could still feel the remnants of the afternoon in her body.The sharp ache in her shoulder had A. The deeper pain hadn't.Three days.Three days until the Sacred Moonstone ceremony.Three days until the kingdom decided what happened to Kael's throne.And after what had happened during training the silver light bursting through her before she could control it, the seal resisting the connection they had tried to establish Elara wasn't sure whether she was more afraid of the Moonstone or of herself.Yssa's warning still echoed in her mind.The seal was never meant to last this long.Someone had forgotten to finish it.And now everyone was rushing to fix something they barely understood."You should be resting."Elara didn't turn."You should be preparing your defense for a throne you might lose in three days. Yet here you are.""I wanted to see if

Chapter 69 Elara read the instructions for the fourth time.The words remained the same, no matter how many times she looked at them.Only she who was sealed may unbind it.No hand but her own.No will but her choosing.She lowered the parchment.The ceremony was three days away.Her mother's letter sat beside the instructions, its edges already soft from how many times Elara had handled it.Complete it, and I remain hidden no longer.The words had sounded simple when she'd first read them.Now they felt like a sentence.Complete the ritual, and the truth about her blood would become undeniable.Wait, and she would enter the Sacred Moonstone ceremony with the seal still incomplete.Still fractured.Still vulnerable to whatever had happened during the training attempt.Elara closed her eyes.She didn't know which fear was larger.The fear of being exposed.Or the fear of remaining incomplete when the Moonstone judged her."You've been staring at that page since I got here."Elara open