The Dragon's Fragile Bride: His to Possess
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I reached behind my back, my fingers finding the thick folds of the heavy crimson velvet.
"You are quick for a sickly thing," the assassin said, taking two slow, deliberate steps toward me. He raised the curved blade, turning the edge so the green poison caught the faint light of the fireplace. "The rumors were wrong about your feet, but they were right about your blood. You will bleed just like any other common girl."
I kept my eyes locked on his shoulders. Back in Ashvale, when the stable boys tried to corner the stray dogs, their shoulders always dropped right before they swung their sticks.