Alpha Father Traded His True Heir for His Bastard Daughter Now Karma's Ultimate Payback novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: The Brennick Pack Hears

The enforcer did not arrest him.

He stood with the cuffs half raised and stared at the wall of wolves, and I saw him count them and not like the number.

"Sir," said the woman beside him, in a low voice. "Article eleven."

"I know what article eleven says."

"Then read it out."

He swore under his breath and pulled a small black book from his coat.

He read it badly, with his thumb on the line.

"A wolf claimed as a mate by an Alpha may not be taken from that Alpha's roof before the next full moon, if the claim is witnessed by the Alpha's family."

Nobody spoke.

Then Mark's mother unfolded her arms.

"I witness it," she said. "Jasper Holloran's mother. I stand behind my son's claim."

Her eyes slid to mine for a moment, and I could not hold them.

"That's the family," Jasper said. "Put the cuffs away."

The enforcer shoved them into his belt.

"Escort, then," he said. "Not custody. We ride behind you to Denver, and she goes into the ring on her own two feet."

"She will."

"Tell your Prosecutor her writ failed," I said.

He did not answer, and he went back to his car.

I was shaking when Jasper turned around.

He took my face between his hands in front of everyone.

"Dress," he said. "We have a ring to get to."

We drove to Denver in three trucks, with the gray sedans behind us.

The Council forecourt was full by midday.

Packs from five states stood around the stone ring in the middle of it, in dark coats, murmuring.

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