Dawn Walker Novel Chapter 270: The Quiet Vow VI

Chapter 270: 270: The Quiet Vow VI

The word struck oddly after everything else that was already attached to it in Sekht’s mind. The wedding was done. Honeymoon remaining. Turning plans postponed but still near. The hidden life under his roof. The blood sovereign threat. And now Mihos.

Interesting timing, though. Too interesting.

Had Mihos co by chance in the sa narrow space of days as the hidden wedding? No.The wedding, of course, he did not know. But the heir’s movent into the city right after Iron House pressure failed was no coincidence.

Assessnt.

Lily saw the line of his jaw harden and knew what it ant even if she did not yet know every na in the ga.

Kess bowed. "As Lady Elena sees fit."

Kess hesitated. Only slightly.

Seraphiel caught it too and smiled inwardly at the envoy’s mistake.

So. Still hidden enough to avoid broad rumor, but close enough to move quickly. Sensible. Annoying.

Then he asked, " Did he have any connection to Iron House?"

There. He lied about it.

He got scared and replied, "He visited them."

Sekht’s eyes went colder and he felt sothing was wrong. He knew Mihos might be connected to the iron house, and his vampire instinct guessed it. "Tonight."

Not a question. An answer.

But To Iron House. That said plenty.

Seraphiel’s voice turned drier. "Well. There is the warmth."

Sekht’s mind moved through the implications with calm speed.

Mihos using Stephen’s formal hand to touch his family only after speaking to the very rchant house that had been trying to destroy them.

First, Mihos did not trust Iron House enough to act through them blindly. That matched the kind of heir described by old silence and newer resentnt.

Sekht did not take offense from that.

Elena unfolded the letter one last ti, then refolded it with finality. "We will send a response before the night is over."

"You will eat first," Elena said.

He hid it well.

She did not look at him. "A hungry envoy becos a gossiping envoy. A fed envoy becos a patient one."

Kess bowed again. "Your hospitality is appreciated."

He almost smiled at that. Almost...

Only after the envoy left the room did the pressure shift.

"He recognized Lady Seraphiel."

"That is not reassuring."

Elena’s eyes remained on the door through which Kess had gone. "He will report it."

Lily looked at him. "Does that make things worse?"

"Yes," he said honestly. "But not in a way we can change now."

Elena added, "Either is useful."

Sekht almost smiled.

"That was my second worst decision this week."

Lily pointed at him. "Do not fish for first place."

Elena, however, had already shifted into practical thought. "He will want the eting tomorrow. Which ans tomorrow cannot go the way I planned."

Lily’s face changed first. Not dramatically. Just enough.

All of it would now have to bend around Mihos’s arrival.

Lily’s expression tightened, but she held it well. "Then we adjust."

Seraphiel’s eyes moved between them. "That sounded disturbingly married."

That almost got a real smile out of Sekht.

Lily straightened. "Understood."

Elena continued, "Tomorrow, Mihos’s hand will test the house. We answer carefully. The private life of this house remains private."

Sekht answered that.

The line sat in the room with quiet force.

"Yes," she said softly. "There he is. The young version of Eyra."

Lily looked at Sekht in that mont with sothing warm and sharp in her face all at once. Not because he sounded dramatic. Because he sounded like himself.