Todos os capítulos de The Second Shore: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 37

“Come back to the palace with me.”Evelyn handed her daughter across to Julian and made sure he had her.Then she stepped forward, putting Julian and the child behind her, and looked at Lucien calmly.“Is Your Majesty going to use the throne to force me?”Lucien watched her put herself in front of t

Evelyn stood holding that piece of paper and looking at the mark of the imperial physicians' dispensary printed on the corner of it, and said nothing for a long time.The shop somehow acquired trouble with the local toughs, who started coming by to make a nuisance of themselves and to make them pay

Something closed hard on Lucien's heart, and the pain of it nearly stopped his breathing.What he had wanted had never been this—a surrender given out of despair, because she'd been left nothing else.But it had come to this, and what else was there for him now?“I don't go back on my word,” he said

Outside the room, Lionel heard the noise and put his head cautiously around the door.“Your Majesty? Shall I send men to—”“Let her go.” The voice that came back from inside was hoarse past bearing, and there was a calm in it that came from having stopped wanting anything at all. “No one stops her.