Wolf Princess Sold to the Dragon King novel Chapter 154

Chapter 154: She Said Love. He Heard It. Fuck.

Blair-O-Meter: Psycho-Bitch.

There were four levels to the Blair-O-Meter, and being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night for her idiot brother had launched her straight into the danger zone.

She had threatened to push Kael down a stairwell exactly six days ago. The universe with its fucked-up sense of humor was now making her save the bastard with her own blood.

She shoved through the door of a room she hadn’t set foot in since she was a child.

The quarters were exactly as hideous as she suspected, which was to say exactly as ugly as Maddox’s. Two brothers. One terrible aesthetic. Zero self-awareness between them. She had spent her whole life adjacent to it and it never stopped offending her.

Ox-blood leather chairs. Ugly-ass curtains. A bearskin rug with the goddamn head still attached. Blair and the rug locked eyes for a moment. Kindred spirits, the two of them. Both dead inside, both trapped in this room.

The only difference between Maddox’s and Kael’s quarters was the sheer number of books. Kael had built-in bookshelves climbing every wall, floor to vaulted ceiling. Usually the loudest man in the room was the dumbest. But Kael Ashenvale was the rare exception: the loudest man in the room was also the smartest, and he knew it.

She glanced down at him. He was lying on the bed, eyes closed, brows knit with a pained expression on his face. His skin had turned a sickly grey and his chest rose and fell in the hesitant, shallow way it did right before it threatened to quit. She wondered how someone so annoying had the nerve to look this pathetic.

Aldric knelt over him with both sleeves shoved up, magic pouring from palms into his chest. The healer hadn’t looked up when she entered.

"Congratulations, Princess, you’ll win best sibling of the year."

"Low bar," Blair replied, dropping into a chair beside the bed like a hostage who had accepted her fate. At least the chair was ugly enough to match her mood.

She shoved her robe sleeve up her arm. "What did he do this time?"

"Died a little." Aldric found her vein on the first pass and slid the needle home clean. "The getting-better part is still pending."

"Died a little," Blair repeated. "Did he tell you that?"

"He did," Aldric confirmed.

"Dramatic per usual then," she sighed.

She watched her blood climb the tube, dark and fast, into a vial that filled in seconds under Aldric’s grip. He capped it quickly and hooked it into Kael’s line.

Her blood started its descent toward the brother she’d sworn a week ago she’d cheerfully push down a stairwell.

Kael stirred.

His eyes cracked open a slit, because even three-quarters dead the man had radar for an audience.

"Blair." His voice was a wreck, all gravel. "You came. Knew you’d cave."

He was goddamn grinning. She wanted to smack him.

"I have a thing for not filling out the paperwork when a royal dies in an ugly bedroom." Blair kept her voice bored and her eyes on the tube. "Don’t flatter yourself, Ashenvale. I’d donate to a houseplant if the healer asked nicely."

His lids sank. "I have that."

"Have what?"

"That robe. We can match."

"You’re delirious," Blair informed him. "You and I will never match."

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