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The Dragon's Kiss

WARNING: This novel is unfinished The first time she saw him, he was surrounded by flames. She couldn’t clearly see his eyes, but his gaze burned every part of her skin it lingered on. Surely if the legendary beasts ever had existed, he would be one of them—one of the dragons. **** Kel has spent her life as a palace guard, hiding her mysterious ability. When sent in the princess's place to form a marriage alliance with a neighboring kingdom, she is captured by enemy soldiers and taken to the Serin Empire. The ruler of Serin is a terrifying and coldhearted man, but he seems to have taken an unusual interest in Kel. How long will she be able to keep her identity and abilities a secret under the constant gaze of the Dragon Emperor? ---------- !!Slow burn romance!! ~I own no rights to the cover image~

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TWENTY TWO: The Herbalist’s Apprentice

"Well, it happened accidentally, when I went to find the herbalist from that night…"

Previously, when Kel had spent time replaying the events of the night of Lucy's poisoning in her mind, she'd come across one particular occurrence that didn't make sense.

That night, the doctor had been the first to come rushing in the room to attend to Lucy. He inspected the patient and quickly got to work alleviating her symptoms as best he could.

Next came the herbalist, who also immediately ran to inspect the patient.

She checked a few things on Lucy's body, diagnosed the poison, and handed over the antidote.

It would have been a perfectly logical order of events..

If the very knife Lucy had been slashed with wasn't left in the room.

No matter how confident an herbalist was in their knowledge and skills, when it comes to identifying poison, checking the source is always more efficient than checking the afflicted.