Chapter 53: Bewitched I
Annora
The throne weighs most when the room pretends to love me.
Velvet and brocade blur into a rippling sea of curtsies and half-smiles, jeweled throats bending like reeds before a wind they intend to outlast. The chandeliers burn steady, but all I hear is the hiss beneath the candlelight, ...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Unseen and the Crown
2. Chapter 2: The Scent of Fate
3. Chapter 3: Polished and Bound
4. Chapter 4: A Place Beside the King
5. Chapter 5: Boundaries Pushed
6. Chapter 6: When Blood Calls
7. Chapter 7: Eyes of A Beast
8. Chapter 8: His Absence, His Call
9. Chapter 9: The Edge of Knowing
10. Chapter 10: Whispers in Stone
11. Chapter 11: Feeding The Throne
12. Chapter 12: His Majesty’s Favorite
13. Chapter 13: The Kiss That Bled
14. Chapter 14: Whispers Beneath the Skin
15. Chapter 15: To Know Me
16. Chapter 16: Taste of the Forbidden
17. Chapter 17: Unbound, Unmarked, Unforgotten
18. Chapter 18: The Bite That Binds
19. Chapter 19: A Fragile Thing
20. Chapter 20: The Taste That Lingers
21. Chapter 21: One More Day
22. Chapter 22: The Scent of Secrets
23. Chapter 23: Beneath the Council’s Gaze
24. Chapter 24: A Queen Without a Crown
25. Chapter 25: Proof Not Found
26. Chapter 26: The Blood That Betrayed
27. Chapter 27: Not Just a Mortal Girl
28. Chapter 28: A Choice Not Given
29. Chapter 29: When Love Damns
30. Chapter 30: The Spark in the Dark
31. Chapter 31: Come Back, Beloved
32. Chapter 32: Not Like the Others
33. Chapter 33: The Birth of a Queen
34. Chapter 34: Thirst, Memory, Power
35. Chapter 35: The Door I Dare Not Cross
36. Chapter 36: More Than a Name
37. Chapter 37: Velvet and Ash
38. Chapter 38: A Throne Stolen in Silk
39. Chapter 39: Let the Trials Begin
40. Chapter 40: Trial I
41. Chapter 41: She Who Was Hidden
42. Chapter 42: The Blade
43. Chapter 43: The Crown Decided
44. Chapter 44: The Bond Sealed
45. Chapter 45: The Vow
46. Chapter 46: Crown and Fang
47. Chapter 47: What Is Ours
48. Chapter 48: Shadows
49. Chapter 49: Loyalty
50. Chapter 50: Let It Burn
51. Chapter 51: Scrutiny and Surrender
52. Chapter 52: Not Wholly My Own
53. Chapter 53: Bewitched I
54. Chapter 54: Bewitched II
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