Chapter 178 The Shield and the Trap
Kestrel's POV
High above the arena floor in the grand royal box, the deafening silence of the five thousand spectators felt far heavier than the loudest roar of a stadium crowd.
I leaned slightly forward against the velvet-draped marble railing, keeping my hands folded calmly over my ceremonial lap,...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Left at the Altar
2. Chapter 2 Leaving
3. Chapter 3 Betrothed Again
4. Chapter 4 One Last Look
5. Chapter 5 Bonded
6. Chapter 6 Consummation
7. Chapter 7 Information
8. Chapter 8 The Letter
9. Chapter 9 Let Go of my Wife
10. Chapter 10 On the Same Page
11. Chapter 11 Seething
12. Chapter 12 Planning
13. Chapter 13 The Ball
14. Chapter 14 Seraphine Vael
15. Chapter 15 Make Up
16. Chapter 16 Put in Her Place
17. Chapter 17 Battle Plans
18. Chapter 18 Lover's Mark
19. Chapter 19 Duties
20. Chapter 20 Lyra Draveth
21. Chapter 21 Special Wine
22. Chapter 22 The Consummation
23. Chapter 23 The Next Morning
24. Chapter 24 Attacked
25. Chapter 25 The Coalition
26. Chapter 26 An Obstacle Cleared
27. Chapter 27 A Talk
28. Chapter 28 What Was Meant to Happen
29. Chapter 29 Trial of Lies
30. Chapter 30 A Walk in the Garden
31. Chapter 31 Failed Seduction
32. Chapter 32 Truth
33. Chapter 33 More Trouble Than She's Worth
34. Chapter 34 Man Eater
35. Chapter 35 Making Trouble
36. Chapter 36 Mad With Power
37. Chapter 37 You Won. For Now.
38. Chapter 38 Realization
39. Chapter 39 I Will Always Protect You
40. Chapter 40 Taken By Night
41. Chapter 41 Evil Begets Evil
42. Chapter 42 Breaking the Spell
43. Chapter 43 A Coup
44. Chapter 44 In The Nick Of Time
45. Chapter 45 All is Well
46. Chapter 46 I Think I Love You
47. Chapter 47 Secrets Hidden
48. Chapter 48 Resolved
49. Chapter 49 An Engagement Party
50. Chapter 50 Back to Work
51. Chapter 51 Riding to War
52. Chapter 52 Victory
53. Chapter 53 I'm Pregnant
54. Chapter 54 The Big News
55. Chapter 55 The Birds and the Bees- The Dragon Way
56. Chapter 56 A Night of Celebration
57. Chapter 57 Dark Shadows Rising
58. Chapter 58 Rue The Night
59. Chapter 59 Ambushed
60. Chapter 60 The Garden
61. Chapter 61 What I Became
62. Chapter 62 Switching Faces
63. Chapter 63 Swapped
64. Chapter 64 Left for Dead
65. Chapter 65 Taking His Place
66. Chapter 66 Seducing the Wrong Man
67. Chapter 67 A Slice of Heaven
68. Chapter 68 Slipping
69. Chapter 69 Poisoned
70. Chapter 70 Saved
71. Chapter 71 Free
72. Chapter 72 A Royal had Died
73. Chapter 73 Pitted Against Each Other
74. Chapter 74 One Bond Mended
75. Chapter 75 I'm Here
76. Chapter 76 Mother
77. Chapter 77 Seen
78. Chapter 78 Claims
79. Chapter 79 Pain
80. Chapter 80 We're Back
81. Chapter 81 A Spy?
82. Chapter 82 We Need to Talk
83. Chapter 83 Questions With No Answers
84. Chapter 84 Mystery Woman
85. Chapter 85 They Know
86. Chapter 86 Outed
87. Chapter 87 Murder on the Dance Floor
88. Chapter 88 Pick and Choose
89. Chapter 89 Guarded
90. Chapter 90 Rest
91. Chapter 91 The Shape of a Shadow
92. Chapter 92 Altered Logs
93. Chapter 93 Setting A Trap
94. Chapter 94 Eight Months
95. Chapter 95 Loose Ends
96. Chapter 96 End of the Lane
97. Chapter 97 Caught
98. Chapter 98 So Many Questions, So Little Answers
99. Chapter 99 Hidden Threads in the Lining
100. Chapter 100 Currency
101. Chapter 101 The Approaching Shadow
102. Chapter 102 Built on a Lie
103. Chapter 103 Rot
104. Chapter 104 Threatened
105. Chapter 105 A Bit of Peace
106. Chapter 106 The Wrong Time
107. Chapter 107 She's Here
108. Chapter 108 Stillborn
109. Chapter 109 Three Weeks in the Vault
110. Chapter 110 Secrets Buried
111. Chapter 111 A Woman in Black Stone
112. Chapter 112 The Volunteer
113. Chapter 113 What Waits In Store
114. Chapter 114 Blood. Not Marriage
115. Chapter 115 The Vote
116. Chapter 116 Handwriting
117. Chapter 117 Confession
118. Chapter 118 Two Words
119. Chapter 119 What Fear Costs
120. Chapter 120 Bluff
121. Chapter 121 The Grandmother
122. Chapter 122 The Weight of It All
123. Chapter 123 What the Mirror Holds
124. Chapter 124 The Cousin
125. Chapter 125 Refusal
126. Chapter 126 What She Sensed
127. Chapter 127 A Name for the Fire
128. Chapter 128 Flicker
129. Chapter 129 Threads
130. Chapter 130 What the Scrolls Held
131. Chapter 131 Goodbye
132. Chapter 132 The Shrine
133. Chapter 133 Free
134. Chapter 134 Unknown
135. Chapter 135 Not an Invasion
136. Chapter 136 Face to Face
137. Chapter 137 Ready to Tell
138. Chapter 138 Celebration
139. Chapter 139 The Same Hand
140. Chapter 140 A Name at Last
141. Chapter 141 Testing the Walls
142. Chapter 142 Nothing Left to Offer
143. Chapter 143 The Original Safeguard
144. Chapter 144 Ilyana's Burden
145. Chapter 145 Connection
146. Chapter 146 The Last Stand
147. Chapter 147 A Seat at the Table
148. Chapter 148 Good News
149. Chapter 149 A Single Name
150. Chapter 150 Announcements
151. Chapter 151 Respite
152. Chapter 152 Refusal
153. Chapter 153 Non-Compromise
154. Chapter 154 Riders at the Gate
155. Chapter 155 Patience
156. Chapter 156 Flipped
157. Chapter 157 Behind the Screen
158. Chapter 158 Before the Frost
159. Chapter 159 Still
160. Chapter 160 Nets
161. Chapter 161 Still Standing
162. Chapter 162 Finale (Book 1)
163. Chapter 163 The First Ripple
164. Chapter 164 Reading the Room
165. Chapter 165 A Father's Worry
166. Chapter 166 Applause
167. Chapter 167 Fanatics
168. Chapter 168 The Cabal Beneath Ashviel
169. Chapter 169 Fifteen Percent
170. Chapter 170 Nothing Left to Fear
171. Chapter 171 The Boy Who Broke the Square
172. Chapter 172 Burns
173. Chapter 173 Precision
174. Chapter 174 Mirrors
175. Chapter 175 Masks in the Crowd
176. Chapter 176 Cracks in the Marble
177. Chapter 177 The Weight of the Scales
178. Chapter 178 The Shield and the Trap
179. Chapter 179 Shadows on the Terrace
180. Chapter 180 Blue Wax
181. Chapter 181 Leader of the Board
182. Chapter 182 The Missing Pages
183. Chapter 183 The Vreth Vaults
184. Chapter 184 Void
185. Chapter 185 The Clock
186. Chapter 186 The Weight of Promise
187. Chapter 187 Locket and Blade
188. Chapter 188 The Trap at the Pass
189. Chapter 189 An Envoy's Crest
190. Chapter 190 Behind the Crown
191. Chapter 191 Fragile Threads
192. Chapter 192 The Cold Perimeter
193. Chapter 193 Gold and Violet Fire
194. Chapter 194 Shadow
195. Chapter 195 Oath in Ashes
196. Chapter 196 Thorn in the Mind
197. Chapter 197 Marks of Ashviel
198. Chapter 198 Burning Archives
199. Chapter 199 Shadows in the Light
200. Chapter 200 Open Heart
201. Chapter 201 Stolen Iron
202. Chapter 202 Cataclysm
203. Chapter 203 Resolve
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