A Crown Cut with Salt
“Because the Conclave will not countenance it. Because I have a realm to keep from tearing itself into a feast for our enemies. Because.”
“Because you obviously never loved your wife,” I spat, the worst thing I could have said, the truest and the least fair. The tears broke their banks. “You loved the crown she held steady. You loved the convenience. You loved.”
Rowan’s restraint blew apart like rotten sail. “I lost the love of my life,” he roared, so raw the plaster listened. The portrait over the mantel stopped being a painting and became a hunger. “I held a blue dress, and put that in the ground, and empty coffin while the city watched me forget how to breathe. I never got to see her. Do
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