The Healer Bride: Awakening the Ruined Dragon King

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ff the high vaulted ceilings, cutting through the suffocating silence. "The betrothal

sp rippled through the asse

shall take to wife Lady Deena of House Reynolds. Furthermore, in recognition of House Reynolds' endur

Carl

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ed with the purest Dragonflame lineage, Boyc

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f Blackwood Keep-a crippled, paralyzed "corpse" who

n the hall locked

hat Prince Krishna had been my

n madness, carving his name into my heart a

ered today expect

t, scream in hysterical agony, and beg my father not

over her chest, pretending to be shaken while he

a, wore an exquisite gown of shi

eyes brimming with manufactured tears

Father and Prince Krishna to reconsider! But the royal bloodline requires a dragon-blessed bride for Krishna... and

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her eyes as she shrank back from t

ut a single drop of hesitation and

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ting slightly, completely taken abac

r Fredrick Reynolds, narrowed his eyes, his

xpecting another humiliating display of madnes

hree days ago, you brought shame upon this house by trying to hang yourself over a broken

fering a shallow, flawl

's royal will, we should not delay. Please prepare the dowry that rightfully belongs to the firstborn daug

h hitched in sh

n control of the room. "You shall have your mother's chest,

faint, razor-thin smile tou

or the whispering crowd of retainers, I turned on my heel an

broken, lovesick girl to rot in an

me free-and placed the most lethal weapo

nd closed the door, shu

r, I pulled out a small

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