Chapter 36 Cold Dismissal
POV: Benjamin
Three weeks had passed since Roland's suspiciously easy acceptance of Gideon's forged commission, three weeks of borrowed time spent exactly as Gideon had warned they would be, Lauren buried deeper into the registry's oldest sections, Benjamin buried deeper into his father's old corre...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Servant's Papers
2. Chapter 2 Below Stairs
3. Chapter 3 The Prince Who Doesn't Smile
4. Chapter 4 Ink and Dust
5. Chapter 5 A Name in the Ledger
6. Chapter 6 The Wrong Hand
7. Chapter 7 The First Question
8. Chapter 8 The Advisor's Eyes
9. Chapter 9 Reassigned
10. Chapter 10 What Caleb Saw
11. Chapter 11 The Fragment
12. Chapter 12 Called to Authenticate
13. Chapter 13 After Curfew
14. Chapter 14 The Weight of the Words
15. Chapter 15 Old Names, Old Fears
16. Chapter 16 The Registry
17. Chapter 17 A Warning in Silk
18. Chapter 18 Borrowed Hours
19. Chapter 19 The Founder's Vault
20. Chapter 20 Locked Doors
21. Chapter 21 A Quiet Order
22. Chapter 22 What Caleb Knows
23. Chapter 23 Two Kinds of Grief
24. Chapter 24 The Second Name
25. Chapter 25 Unwitting Informant
26. Chapter 26 Searched
27. Chapter 27 Nowhere Safe
28. Chapter 28 A Prince's Interference
29. Chapter 29 A Threat Dressed as Kindness
30. Chapter 30 Almost
31. Chapter 31 The Order
32. Chapter 32 Borrowed Time
33. Chapter 33 Her Mother's Era
34. Chapter 34 His Father's Sins
35. Chapter 35 The Monster He's Afraid Of
36. Chapter 36 Cold Dismissal
37. Chapter 37 Behind the False Wall
38. Chapter 38 Named
39. Chapter 39 A Debt Between Us
40. Chapter 40 Interrupted
41. Chapter 41 The Intruder
42. Chapter 42 An Audience Requested
43. Chapter 43 Before the Throne
44. Chapter 44 What He Wants Instead
45. Chapter 45 Half the Truth
46. Chapter 46 Partners
47. Chapter 47 The Wrong Date
48. Chapter 48 The Same Family, Every Time
49. Chapter 49 Vivian's Choice
50. Chapter 50 Detained
51. Chapter 51 What He's Done
52. Chapter 52 The Security Wing
53. Chapter 53 Racing the Story
54. Chapter 54 Two Versions
55. Chapter 55 Cell Walls
56. Chapter 56 Gideon's Gambit
57. Chapter 57 The King Reads
58. Chapter 58 Roland's Counter
59. Chapter 59 A Question of Ink
60. Chapter 60 The Court Divides
61. Chapter 61 Vivian's Reckoning
62. Chapter 62 The Missing Contract
63. Chapter 63 A Guard's Silence
64. Chapter 64 The King's Verdict, Delayed
65. Chapter 65 Released, Not Free
66. Chapter 66 The Inquiry Begins
67. Chapter 67 Roland's Allies Thin
68. Chapter 68 What Vivian Knows
69. Chapter 69 The Father's Testimony
70. Chapter 70 A Kingdom Watching
71. Chapter 71 The Weight of Numbers
72. Chapter 72 Roland's Last Patience
73. Chapter 73 Threatened
74. Chapter 74 Lauren's Fear
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