Wolf Princess Sold to the Dragon King novel Chapter 230

Chapter 230: All Of These Pillows Are Kind Of Nice

Kael opened his eyes, blinking a few times as a face swam into focus.

He was expecting the woman he had mistaken for a pillow.

Instead, he got his brother’s face six inches from his, radiating enough fury to heat a small village.

"You look terrible," Maddox said flatly.

"Where is-"

Kael coughed.

"Don’t talk," the Luminari healer said to Kael.

Kael looked at the man with an expression that said who the fuck are you. The man looked back at Kael with an expression that said, I am a pissed off healer that has been stuck in a circus trying to heal you.

Kael lifted his head, only to see Renwick Lunaris, the Pee-Pee crybaby prince, the Beta, and the old healer in a standoff.

Cassian was on his knees bleeding, face still burned.

The healer shoved a pillow behind Kael so he would stop using his muscles to watch. Kael had a brief Eureka moment: all these pillows are kind of nice.

Kael watched the scene unfold the way a pyro watches a building burn after lighting the match.

DOMINO 28: CHECKMATE

LUNARIS KEEP - PRINCESS’S TOWER - 7:53 PM

"You knew longer than today, Renwick," Draven said, voice calm. "You’re saying that so she blames herself and we both know it."

Renwick lowered his blade back to Cassian’s throat.

"I watched you look at her the way you used to look at your wife. Same expression. Same stupid, obvious, incurable softness that you tried to bury under twenty years of service and couldn’t. I watched my son start covering for you, badly. A loyal Beta for decades. You made one mistake and this was it."

He turned his head just enough to catch Maria’s eyes.

"You were all more useful compromised than loyal. Loyal men have opinions. Guilty men have compliance. For months, I had the three most important people in my kingdom operating at peak performance because each of you was terrified I would find out. I didn’t need to hold the leash. You held it yourselves."

Maria’s blade fell. It clattered against the stone and the sound was the sound of surrender.

Cassian’s chest was heaving. His eyes were wet again but the tears were different now.

"Please don’t, Father." His voice was cracking.

Renwick ignored him.

Draven looked at his Alpha. His king. His friend of many years.

"You could run," Renwick said quietly.

"I could." Draven didn’t move. "I won’t."

Renwick’s jaw moved once. "I’m sorry, old friend."

"I know that too."

Stab.

The blade moved from Cassian’s throat into Draven and Draven didn’t flinch.

"NO!" Cassian sobbed. He moved to Draven’s side. "No, no, no."

Renwick looked at Maria.

"Tyler Draven is now Beta of Lunaris. Convince him to take you as his wife and the child lives as a Draven. Beta’s blood. Legitimate. I’ll let you live long enough to deliver it."

Maria stared at him. Incomprehension. Horror. The slow, dawning understanding that the man who had just murdered her lover was offering her a lifeboat for her child that did not include her.

He sheathed the blade.

"You have until I return. Consider it a head start."

DOMINO 29: YOU KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DO THAT

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