Predatory Marriage (Web Novel)

Chapter 288 – Outcome (4)

Translator: Atlas / Editor: Regan

Leading the group of Tomaris was the old woman who had given Leah the basket of roses. She bowed deeply, with reverence.

“Thanks to the kindness of the Queen, we are still alive.”

It was Leah who had saved them from being murdered by Cerdina.

“I will cover her eyes with a spell for a time,” the old Toma woman went on, and as if it had been prepared beforehand, a magic pattern appeared in the grass of the garden.

It would be safe there. But Leah did not step into the pattern. Instead, she looked back toward the reception hall, where black smoke was still rising into the sky.

She had gotten the people of the palace to feel disoriented. She had shaken them hard enough that Cerdina had felt the backlash from the disruption to her spell. But Cerdina had recovered so much faster than expected.

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Leah had left Ishakan in that place.

“Leah,” Mura called, urging her to safety. Leah hadnt moved a step toward the safety of the pattern, and she only turned her head to look at the old Toma woman, reading the anxiety in her gaze. There was something the old woman wanted to say.

“Is there something else I can do?” Leah asked, looking straight at her. Beside her, Muras gaze at the old woman instantly froze, as if warning her not to say anything foolish. The Toma woman did not heed the warning.

“The King of Kurkan will not like it,” she said cautiously. “For his Queen must be stained with blood…”

Muras eyes grew darker.

“Explain,” Leah ordered. She didnt want to sit back and let Ishakan fix everything. Just as he was risking his life for her, she wanted to protect him too. “Ill do anything.”

Muras hands twitched a warning, as if she meant to wring the old womans neck if she spoke just one more word, but Leah caught her hand.

“Mura,” Leah said gently, persuading her with only a few words. “Haban is there, too.”