Wolf Princess Sold to the Dragon King novel Chapter 370

Chapter 370: Grand Theft Token Dictatorship

Ryker abandoned his mimosa mid-sip, which was how everyone knew the next sentence was going to hurt.

"The question isn’t whether she did it. The question is whether the Luminari believe she did it. Because the warrant exists regardless of the truth. The charge is real. The manhunt is active. And Marek just told us Lord Solandris is obligated to turn her in if he sees her."

The silence was unanimous, which was impressive, because this group hadn’t agreed on anything yet.

Little did they know, a dictator was about to take over and get shit done.

"He does not step foot in this keep without me knowing," she stated. "If he stops by, we keep her away from him. Problem solved."

She reached into the pocket of her coat and produced a velvet pouch with the casual showmanship of a magician whose trick was a takeover. Gold tokens clattered on the obsidian table.

Kael’s mouth opened.

"Credit to Kael for his tokens," Blair said, sliding one to every person at the table without looking at him. "Moving on."

Translation: I stole your shit, credited you for it, and now we’re past it, so shut the hell up and keep up.

Kael’s mouth closed. The look that crossed his face belonged to a man watching a woman commit grand-theft-token after she had already committed interior-design assault.

He may have invented the token system but Blair Drakencrest was about to perfect it. History would remember only one of them.

Ryker turned his token over. Looked at Nicholas. Nicholas looked at Damon. Damon looked at Brennan, who was holding his token up to a candle like a man inspecting a suspicious coin at a market.

"What are these for?" Griffin asked.

"You’ll see," Blair replied.

She looked at the table the way grandmasters look at amateurs: with patience that bordered on pity and strategy that bordered on cruelty. Then she slid one token to the center of the table.

The room went quiet, because the move was unmistakable. Every person who had ever sat through one of Kael’s briefings recognized the method: token in the center meant a bullet point in the conversation.

"Marek used the term kill switch and he used the term failsafe."

The words sat on the obsidian beside the token and every spine in the room straightened. Damon’s glass hovered at the exact midpoint between table and mouth, suspended in the no-man’s-land between casual drinking and oh-we’re-doing-this-now.

"That’s what I heard him say in the hall," Blair continued. "The reason why I bring this up is because ’failsafe’ is also the term Lux Nash used to describe the mechanism inside Maddox’s Mirrorlock that we did not want to trigger. The reason why we kept Guinevere away from him for a week. Failsafe is bad." She glanced up at the room. "Confirm?"

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