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Marrying My Cheating Ex's Comatose Uncle

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 669    |    Released on: Today at 18:40

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e sanctuary doors as a tall officer in shatte

s chief adjutant, Jaxon Sharp, stumbled to the foot of th

igh Lord is alive! H

lt. Eleanor gasped and swayed, nearly falling off the

in?" Reginald grabbed Jaxon's ar

ers pulled him from an abyssal fault line! He stil

warlord had survived a ten-thousand-meter trench. I stared at the wide obsidian

r gripped my wrist so tightly my bones

ified Healing Wing. Outside the stone doors, elite Black-Wing Sea Dragon Guards stood with halberd

of burnt flesh and bitter sea-herbs hit my nose-the u

d a terrifying authority, though his skin was ash-gray. Across his broad chest and abdomen, jagged wounds bur

's chain around his neck, pulled a blackened silver needle f

ed to the bedside, her trembling hand

and blocked his Tide-Spirit meridians. He cannot wake, cannot shift his tail, and has lost all five senses. Worse, the iron toxi

nst the bedframe, while Reginald braced a hand

a dead man's name and the permanent dignity of becoming his lawful widow. Even if he died in three months, the Bloodmark on my ring would preserve t

m ring on my finger, and he hesitated. "Your Grace, th

every prime Mana-Crystal in

Soothing to calm their veins and prevent them from dropping in rank. If his bride uses her own life force to perform deep, skin-to-skin

turned toward me. Eleanor slowly pushed herself up and

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Marrying My Cheating Ex's Comatose Uncle
Marrying My Cheating Ex's Comatose Uncle
“On the day I was supposed to marry Gideon Glass, I heard my adopted sister moaning his name behind the doors of my bridal chamber. Cristal Burks had already stolen my father's love and claimed my healing potions as her own. Now she was carrying my fiancé's child. They expected me to endure it. After all, I was Spirit-less. The ash-gray scale on my brow told all of Thalassia that I could never grow a tail, breathe in the open sea, or hold power. To House Glass, a Ringless outcast like me should have been grateful for any husband-even a faithless one. Instead, I set the bridal doorway ablaze and exposed the lovers before the entire noble court. When Gideon's mother demanded that I accept the betrayal and finish the wedding, I tore off my veil and walked straight into the family's mourning hall. If House Glass still wanted a wedding, I would give them one. I claimed the bloodstained ring of Corbin Glass-Gideon's newly fallen uncle, the empire's most feared High Lord of Tides-and chose the only groom who could never betray me. A corpse. I married him before the entire court. But before the ashes of my ruined wedding could cool, my dead husband returned from the abyss-alive.”