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Contract Bride to the Crown Prince
  1. 1. The Sovereign Decree
  2. 2. The Cellist of Portovenere
  3. 3. The Royal Audience
  4. 4. The Gilded Cage 🔒
  5. 5. The Engagement Ball 🔒
  6. 6. Sins of the Royal Suite 🔒
  7. 7. Echoes of Treason 🔒
  8. 8. The Winter Fortress 🔒
  9. 9. The Master Manuscript 🔒
  10. 10. Surrender by the Hearth 🔒
  11. 11. The Royal Hunt Ambush 🔒
  12. 12. Tending the Beast 🔒
  13. 13. Secrets of the Bloodline 🔒
  14. 14. Return to the Capital 🔒
  15. 15. The Poisoned Chalice 🔒
  16. 16. The Grand Inquest 🔒
  17. 17. The Midnight Breach 🔒
  18. 18. Judgment of the Crown 🔒
  19. 19. Surrender of the Heart 🔒
  20. 20. The Royal Cathedral Wedding 🔒
  21. 21. The Bridal Chambers of Monteverdi 🔒
  22. 22. Sovereign Reforms 🔒
  23. 23. The State Visit to Paris 🔒
  24. 24. A Royal Heartbeat 🔒
  25. 25. Cradle of the Sovereign 🔒
  26. 26. Reign of Silk and Steel 🔒

Chapter 13

Secrets of the Bloodline

Contract Bride to the Crown Prince · Julianne De Rossi · 8 min read

Before descending into the lower dungeons of Schloss Hohenstein, Camilla and Nikolai had spent an hour in the castle telegraph room. The small stone turret housed an encrypted private telegraph terminal connected by copper wire to the Regency Ministry in the capital. The rhythmic, metallic clatter of the brass key had echoed through the room as Captain von Brandt deciphered an urgent, top-secret dispatch from Chancellor von Bern. "The situation…

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