Wolf Princess Sold to the Dragon King novel Chapter 320

Chapter 320: Legally Wed, Technically Dead

Seventy-one dominoes. The chain had burned through princes, portals, and sacred demon breeding hymns. There were only a few left before the grand finale.

Some dominoes kill kings. This one created a queen.

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DOMINO 72: THE GOAT TAKES A VICTORY LAP

GREYHALL CROSSING — SHADOWFELL MEETING ROOM — 8:00 AM

Damon Tavian slid a document across the table.

Nicholas picked it up and read. His eyes traveled down the page with the speed of a man whose literacy was being personally tested by the audacity of every subsequent sentence.

Reed leaned over to skim it alongside him.

Nicholas looked at the signature on the bottom of the document. "Renwick Lunaris signed this."

"Yes."

"Willingly."

"Willingly is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence."

Nicholas set the document down like it was a live explosive. "Walk me through it."

"I took thine hand and kiss’d thy ring." Damon allowed himself one breath. Victory laps deserved oxygen. "She disobeyed an Alpha command and marked you. He needed that to go away. So I brought up Lex Relictae. The Law of the Bonded Widow. A fated mate to the Alpha retains full standing, full protection, and full immunity from prosecution by any foreign pack for actions taken in defense of, or in grief for, her king."

"He accepted that?" Nicholas asked, one eyebrow raised.

"You had already publicly claimed her multiple times in front of every Alpha on the continent. Every Beta, captain, and officer present. So I let him know that. He saw you dead on the floor. This was what you would have wanted. To protect her. If he signed, we stayed silent about the whole incident. Everyone wins."

"Everyone wins," Reed repeated. "By that you mean you bent Renwick over a barrel and he thanked you for the lube."

"Barrel implies force. I simply showed him the barrel, described the view, and he climbed on top of it on his own."

Nicholas sat back in his chair with the posture of a man whose Beta had just done his homework, aced the exam, and somehow also fucked the teacher.

"It grants her full standing as Luna of Shadowfell."

"Correct."

"Full immunity from prosecution."

"Also correct."

"Permanent recognition as the Alpha’s bonded mate." Nicholas listed the terms the way a man reads the side effects on medication he’s already swallowed.

"Yes."

"That is a marriage contract, Damon."

"It’s a marriage contract that Renwick thinks is a widow’s clause. The beauty is in the framing."

Nicholas looked at the ceiling. The ceiling offered zero counsel.

"You married our Alpha," Reed stated. "Just want to make sure we’re all hearing this."

"Semantics."

"Not only that. You married our Alpha while he was a corpse on a corridor floor."

"I prefer the term ’strategically leveraged a legal framework during a narrow window of opportunity.’ But yes. Same thing."

Reed looked at Nicholas. Nicholas looked at Reed. A silent, two-man conversation occurred in the span of half a second that roughly translated to: this motherfucker right here is my guy.

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