Marrying My Cheating Ex's Comatose Uncle

Chapter 5

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my wrists with her icy, trembling hand

ctuary, you are our Fourth Madame. You heard Maester Arthur

warlord on the ice bed. How was I supposed t

that channeling life force into a body poisoned by cold iron can trigge

ask for sacrifices in vain. Keep him alive, or bear his heir, and the Platinum A

ed, though I kep

fined Mana-Crystals beyond our annual Tide Tithe to the High Counc

crystal phials, heavy enough to crack a coral table and buy

aising an eyebrow. "Are you sure you want to hand

orth ten of Brody's brood," Reginald replied

nor's tear-stained face, then

return, at tomorrow morning's greeting in the main hall, you will publicly enfo

thout hesitation. "Keep

ulder, before I gently stepped back and turned to Arthur. "M

wing with hot red liquid. "Fourth Madame, this potion will briefly r

us, all

to the ice bed and looked down at the feared High Lord

ps, a faint smirk tugging at my mouth. "My Lord,

and poured the spicy red potion down his throat. H

ing the charred black wounds across his chest. Taking a deep breath, I pr

malice surged up my arms, squeezing my

ide my soul-and a torrent of warm, prismatic gold-violet power expl

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Marrying My Cheating Ex's Comatose Uncle

Dolores Fantasy

“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.”