Chapter 139 The Old Oak
LIRA
A guard stood in the corridor.
But he wasn't like the other guards.
His uniform was standard, the same dark leather, the same silver crest. But his face... his face was wrong. Too sharp. Too knowing. His eyes were the color of winter storms, and when he looked at me, I felt something cold...
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Chapters
1. 1 - The Dragon's chosen
2. 2 - An Awakening
3. 3 - Let the games begin
4. 4 - The Welcoming Ball
5. 5 - The thirteen roses
6. 6 - A gathering of vipers
7. 7 - The Vipers
8. 8 - What the tunnels hide
9. 9 - Lunch with a Prince
10. 10 - The other side of the Garden
11. 11 - Fit to be Dragon Queen
12. 12 - A bold offer
13. 13 - A grave lie
14. 14 - Revealing a hidden truth
15. 15 - Rumors flying
16. 16 - The Dragon Queen's Wrath
17. 17 - Chaos in the palace
18. 18 - A shocking turn.
19. 19 - The rebel and the prince
20. 20 - Trials and Teacups
21. 21 - Rules aren't for Kings
22. 22 - Only a little cheating
23. 23 - Another elimination
24. 24 - The Dragon's Prophecy
25. 25 - Whispers
26. 26 - Ice cold
27. 27 - Another strategy meeting
28. 28 - The game of the court
29. 29 - A battle not for the weak
30. 30 - An alliance
31. 31 - Dinner
32. 32 - A perfect Disconnection
33. 33 - I am what you need.
34. 34 - The brooch
35. 35 - A surprise news
36. 36 - An apology in the works
37. 37 - Why Stay?
38. 38 - A bleak future
39. 39 - Rehearsals Rehearsals
40. 40 - The Performance
41. 41 - Chaos in the hall
42. 42 - A visitor in the dark
43. 43 - Fingers pointed
44. 44 - And the nights drag on
45. Chapter 45 - The next one
46. Chapter 46 - The garden path
47. Chapter 47 - The prophecy.
48. Chapter 48 - Call of the Wind.
49. Chapter 49 - Sweet Visions
50. Chapter 50 - When the Dark calls
51. Chapter 51 - The Hidden truth
52. Chapter 52 - My name on the line.
53. Chapter 53 - Of battles and jealousy
54. Chapter 54 - A surprise visitor
55. Chapter 55 - Personal business
56. Chapter 56 - The secret of the vaults
57. Chapter 57 - A visible interest
58. Chapter 58 - True to one self
59. Chapter 59 - The deciding contest
60. Chapter 60 - The bond between.
61. Chapter 61 - The hidden truth
62. Chapter 62 - It is my duty
63. Chapter 63 - The Queen’s draught
64. Chapter 64 - A twist in time
65. Chapter 65 - The Ball begins
66. Chapter 66 - The first Waltz
67. Chapter 67 - An interruption
68. Chapter 68 - First Contact
69. Chapter 69 - Your mess or mine?
70. Chapter 70 - In the closet.
71. Chapter 71 - In search of a husband
72. Chapter 72 - A very very bad idea.
73. Chapter 73 - A way Out
74. Chapter 74 - When the clock strikes twelve
75. Chapter 75 - A well kept secret
76. Chapter 76 - Keeper of the vault
77. Chapter 77 - A leverage
78. Chapter 78 - Harmful secrets
79. Chapter 79 - For the first time
80. Chapter 80 - A figure
81. Chapter 81 - Human scum
82. Chapter 82 - Enough
83. Chapter 83 - Reconciliation meeting
84. Chapter 84 - Veyraxis
85. Chapter 85 - Choose
86. Chapter 86 - The meeting
87. Chapter 87 - Carry my Fire
88. Chapter 88 - Hell-hole
89. Chapter 89 - The offering
90. Chapter - 90 - The vanishing act
91. Chapter 91 - The sacrifice
92. Chapter 92 - The cost of desperation
93. Chapter 93 - Summoned
94. Chapter 94 - Dinner is served
95. Chapter 95 - A decision
96. Chapter 96 - Sudden kindness
97. Chapter 97 - Cat’s out of the bag.
98. Chapter 98 - The impossible
99. Chapter 99 - The silent killer
100. Chapter 100 - A new dawn
101. Chapter 101 - Streaked Red
102. Chapter 102 - the awakening
103. Chapter 103 - Blood of the old
104. Chapter 104 - Masked protection
105. Chapter 105 - The council meeting
106. Chapter 106 - One mistake away
107. Chapter 107 | the perfect stranger
108. Chapter 108 - Nothing
109. Chapter 109 - Choose me
110. Chapter 110 - Smell
111. Chapter 111 - A surprise visitor
112. Chapter 112 - The hatchling
113. Chapter 113 - Plan in motion
114. Chapter 114 - Secrets and dinners
115. Chapter 115 - Rage
116. Chapter 116 - The reveal
117. Chapter 117 - A sacrifice
118. Chapter 118 - Two choices
119. Chapter 119 - Impending doom
120. Chapter 120 - A discovery
121. Chapter 121 - The match
122. Chapter 122 - Collared
123. Chapter 123 - Bound
124. Chapter 124 -The visit
125. Chapter 125 - Revenge
126. Chapter 126 - Now Lira
127. Chapter 127 - Trust
128. Chapter 128 - The Princes burden
129. Chapter 129 - Gathering storm
130. Chapter 130 What the dead cannot say
131. Chapter 131 The choice
132. Chapter 132 What have we become
133. Chapter 133 - The truth takes flight.
134. Chapter 134 The weight of silence
135. Chapter 135 Closer
136. Chapter 136 House of lies
137. Chapter 137 The tombstone
138. Chapter 138 The Rodent
139. Chapter 139 The Old Oak
140. Chapter 140 The Reckoning
141. Chapter 141 - The Dinner
142. Chapter 142 The morning after
143. Chapter 143 The Spy’s report
144. Chapter 144 Two roads divide a path
145. Chapter 145 The calm before
146. Chapter 146 A caged bird
147. Chapter 147 Time is running out
148. Chapter 148 A reckoning
149. Chapter 149 Who did you protect?
150. Chapter 150 The dragon’s bargain
151. Chapter 151 The day of the ball
152. Chapter 152 Burn
153. Chapter 153 The Prince’s preparations
154. Chapter 154 How long?
155. Chapter 155 Interception
156. Chapter 156 I swear it on my life.
157. Chapter 157 Bet on me
158. Chapter 158 Blood on my hands
159. Chapter 159 The Wing
160. Chapter 160 Spare me
161. Chapter 161 - Edge of Precipice
162. Chapter 162 - The huntress
163. Chapter 163 The Dragon Trials
164. Chapter 164 Watcher in the Sky
165. Chapter 165 The Huntress
166. Chapter 166 The Scarred One
167. Chapter 167 Homecoming
168. Chapter 168 The Great Betrayer
169. Chapter 169 The Fallen Prince
170. Chapter 170 - By design
171. Chapter 171 - The Queen’s address
172. Chapter 172 The Heart of Aurelis
173. Chapter 173 Ring of Fire
174. Chapter 174 - Sunroom
175. Chapter 175 - Old Chapel
176. Chapter 176 - Delirium
177. Chapter 177 Mirror on the wall
178. Chapter 178 - Wide Awake
179. Chapter 179 - Promise me
180. Chapter 180 - Unwanted visitors
181. Chapter 181 - In Love
182. Chapter 182 Dinner of doom
183. Chapter 183 An Old Man’s mercy
184. Chapter 184 The engagement party
185. Chapter 185 Omen of the gods
186. Chapter 186 Gift of the night
187. Chapter 187 Old refuge
188. Chapter 188 The Warning
189. Chapter 189 Why
190. Chapter 190 The space between us.
191. Chapter 191 The missing one
192. Chapter 192 The Dragon King’s Truth
193. Chapter 193 - The truth unbound
194. Chapter 194 - The Present
195. Chapter 195 - Poisoned truth
196. Chapter 196 - The hardest truth
197. Chapter 197 - Advance
198. Chapter 198 - The Queen’s Design
199. Chapter 199 The Great meeting
200. Chapter 200 Breaking point.
201. Chapter 201 - The Escape within
202. Chapter 202 - The Dragon show
203. Chapter 203 - Fallen
204. Chapter 204 Long live
205. Chapter 205 Into battle
206. Chapter 206 Silver lining
207. 207 - A temporary resolution
208. Chapter 208 - Aura
209. Chapter 209 - Eye of the Tiger
210. Chapter 210 - Night Raid
211. Chapter 211 - The Unveiling
212. Chapter 212 Reckoning at the northern passes.
213. Chapter 213 Lirael Sutton
214. Chapter 214 - An Olive branch
215. 215 - Blood Awakens
216. Chapter 216 - The fall
217. Chapter 217 - Chaos multiplied
218. Chapter 218 - The essence of Life
219. Chapter 219 The bond that calls
220. Chapter 220 The coup
221. Chapter 221 Alive
222. EPILOGUE 1 - THE WEIGHT OF PEACE.
223. EPILOGUE 2: THE DRAGON QUEEN
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