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d, I would have laughed in their face. But after spending four days in the dungeon, I
it. Other times, they deliberately dropped my food onto the dirty floor and laughed as I struggled to pick it up. I hated giving them the satisfaction of watching
deliberately stopped to remind me of what I had supposedly done to their Queen. One of them was particularly cruel. Every
ing, laughing as he pushed my plate through the bars. "It wou
point in defending myself. I had tried that enough times to know they wouldn't listen. Besides, I had already was
or walk. Under normal circumstances, my wolf would have helped my body recover within days, but the black choker around my neck had made that impossible. I had tried removing it
ised to make me his breeder if I survived the trial, and I had done exactly that. Yet four days had passed without a single word from him. I c
my injured legs without putting pressure on my burned feet, when I heard footsteps approaching. I didn't bother look
topped directly outside my cell
ars. One was the same man who had spent the past four days telling me
et
ever opened my cell at this hour before
ng me?" I asked as I
sty wants
Four days ago, Lennox had promised to spare my life, but the last thin
sked, hoping I h
patient look. "Do you kn
gged me out of the cell. I stumbled when I tried to put weig
se, my
r," he snapped, t
moving. The other guard followed behind us, and I co
g four days surrounded by damp walls and filthy floors, the clean corridors almost seemed unfamilia
cross during the trial. I had survived that night because I had refused to die for a crime I hadn't committed. But as the guards contin
ight to him, but they stopped outsid
," one of the g
ed with what she saw. I couldn't blame her. My dress was covered in dirt and dried blood, my hair was ta
ith us,"
leave. Whatever Lennox had planned for me, it seemed I wa
e wall, already filled with steaming water. Clean towels and several bottles of scented oil had been arranged on a nearby table. For a moment, I forgot
d impatiently. "Are you goin
urned toward
those c
badly burned, and I had to move slowly to avoid putting too much pr
ped. "His Majesty doe
time, but I kept my mouth shut. After everything I had endured in the dung
urns on my feet and the cuts on my body, but I was so relieved to finally be clean that I barely cared. I
t, I almost felt human again. Unfo
g, the older maid hande
this
lding out. It was beautiful, certainly, but I couldn't understand why the King would summ
lly requested it," she
obe again, and sud
order my execution. Somehow, in all that time, I had barely allowed myse
his breeder, but was it
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