“You failed,” Lysander said. Not angry. Curious.
“I didn’t fail,” the assassin replied, lifting his chin. “I chose not to strike.”
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“I thought you’d want to know your line survives.”
“And you thought I’d reward mercy?” “You failed,” Lysander said
The assassin met his gaze. “It’s treason either way.”
The assassin’s breath hitched.
The king’s assassin knelt on the marble, blood dripping from his knuckles. Above him, on a throne of obsidian and bone, sat the Dark King—Lysander the Unmaker, whose name was forbidden in every prayer across the six kingdoms. “I didn’t fail,” the assassin replied, lifting his
The king stopped inches from him. Reached down. Not for a weapon—for the assassin’s jaw, tilting his face to the torchlight.