Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Dragon King Is a Girl: Kabanata 81 - Kabanata 90

Cassian’s POVI found Kael in the training room that night, long after everyone else had gone to bed. He was alone, running the same drill he’d been running since we were boys. Strike, pivot, strike again, over and over, until his shirt was soaked through with sweat. He didn’t stop when I walked in,

The second one went there, too, and the third.I knew what was happening. She was trying to wear the shoulder out. And it was working. The muscle was already tender and throbbing. Each block and parry sent a fresh pang of pain through my arm. One wrong move, and it would pop out of joint again, and

Kael showed me no mercy. I had sparred with him for years, but he had never fought me like this. Every swing came faster than I could follow, and every block sent pain shooting up my arm and into my neck. A blow I never even saw split the skin above my eyebrow, and blood ran down into my left eye.H

Just then, a group of older students stopped at the end of our table.There were five of them, all seniors from the Crown Class. I recognized a couple of them from the fence that morning. The boy in front was tall and broad-shouldered, with a scar cutting across the bridge of his nose.“Evening,” he

I tilted my head and let my cheek rest on his palm. His thumb moved across my cheekbone once, twice, before I cleared my throat and stepped back.“One hour,” he repeated quietly.I climbed the stairs to the fourth floor of the north tower. The senior’s room was at the end of the hall, just like he’d