Chapter 274
Felix
The past couple of months have been a blur. A brutal, somber, necessary blur
Grandfather briefly woke up. Just long enough for his clouded eyes to find mine, for a skeletal hand to pat my own. No words. Just a look of weary understanding, and a final, rattling sigh. Then the long, state funeral. A mountain of white lilies and solemn drums.
Then came the quieter, dirtier work. Cleaning up the rest of my uncle's faction. My father in law happily took care of that for me.
Lumiya is gone. Married off to some foreign duke, left the kingdom.For the first time in centuries, there is no Snowfrost in the royal palace, no ice-queen-in-waiting.
So much has happened, each event a stone laid upon my back.
And Edith is pregnant.
The news should be pure joy. It is a complication of terrifying, wonderful magnitude. The weight on my shoulders is suddenly, tangibly heavier.
