Let Them Kneel (kaelani and Julian) novel Chapter 174

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Chapter 174

His tone sharpened

“She is powerful. Ancient. More than capable of perverting the truth to serve her own freedom.”

Murmurs rippled through the gathered Unseelie.

Some nodding

Some unsure.

Some watching Kaelani like she had just detonated something sacred in the middle of their court.

Draevyn’s gaze returned to her.

Hard now.

Calculating

“And you,” he continued softly, almost pitying, “walked straight into her trap.”

He took a slow step closer.

“Let her into your mind. Allowed her to twist what you saw… what you felt… until you couldn’t tell truth from illusion. ”

Kaelani shook her head.

“NO-

“She showed me what you are.”

But Draevyn spoke right over her.

“No,” he said, voice cutting like steel.

“She showed you a lie.”

His eyes glinted.

“And you were foolish enough to believe it.”

Kaelani didn’t shrink beneath his scrutiny.

“You can’t gaslight me,” she said, her voice firm with the promise that she would not back down. “I know what I saw. I know what I felt.”

She held Draevyn’s gaze, not with fear–but with fire.

“There were rumors the Seelie Queen had fallen ill,” Kaelani continued. “Whispers that she was weakening. Fading

Her features sharpened into something mythic and unyielding.

“If she had been the one stealing the light from her people… she wouldn’t have been dying ”

The hush settled deeper around them as the force of reason bore down over the courtyard.

Kaelani’s eyes never left Draevyn’s. She looked at him like judgement made flesh

“While you,” she said quietly, “grew stronger ”

The accusation hung between them like a blade.

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A flicker of something unreadable passed through Draevyn’s expression.

But Kaelani wasn’t finished.

“You did the same thing to me,” she said.

Her eyes shifted to a dangerous calm as her wolf snarled beneath the surface.

“At the lagoon,” she went on. “Your kiss weakened me. You weren’t giving… you were taking ”

A sharp, humorless laugh left Draevyn’s throat.

“First it was sex magic,” he drawled. “Now it’s what… a kiss of death?”

He tilted his head, feigning curiosity.

“Which story are we going with tonight?”

A few uneasy chuckles sounded from the edges of the crowd.

The three Seers finally stepped forward.

Ancient eyes fixed on Kaelani.

On Draevyn.

On the friction crackling between them.

One of them spoke at last, her words cutting cleanly through the stillness.

“Why,” she asked carefully, “after all these centuries… has Lyressa never once reached beyond her prison?”

Another Seer continued.

“Why has she never called to another mind in dream–walk?”

Their gaze settled fully on Kaelani now.

“Why now?”

The moment lingered.

“Why Kaelani?”

Draevyn’s laughter echoed through the courtyard – sharp and mocking.

“Because she’s a foreigner,” he said. “Ignorant of our history. Easy to manipulate. Far too powerful for her own good. Lyressa seeks to use her. To free herself… and finish what she started. This time with the Unseelie as her slaves.”

A ripple of discomfort passed through the crowd.

Kaelani refused to surrender.

She stood tall.

Steadfast

“No one is going to believe your lies any longer.”

Her voice carried

not loud, but absolute.

“I know what you did. I felt what you took from me

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Her eyes pinned him where he stood.

“You don’t get to rewrite reality and hide the truth behind a throne you never earned.”

Her demeanor didn’t shift–ice, through and through.

“Confess to your crimes. Release the Seelie court from your hex…”

Her chin lifted daringly.

“…or else.”

The shift happened slowly.

Then all at once.

One by one… the Unseelie guards stepped forward.

Boots striking stone in quiet, deliberate unison as they moved to stand behind Draevyn. Their spears lowered into ready positions, golden energy pulsing along the shafts like veins of living light.

A statement.

Not spoken.

But unmistakable.

They had chosen their side.

A ripple moved through the gathered court.

Nobles. Warriors. Courtiers.

They followed.

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