He Chose My Sister, But Now He Wants Me Back novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: No Page Between Us
Green wax burned on the hearthstones, and the library smelled of medicine.
I changed back behind the desk, shaking, with the signed page still in my fist.
Father crossed the room without a word and held out his traveling coat.
I took it. He looked at the floor.
Corwin changed back a moment later and pulled the Alpha's own coat off the chair.
It did not fit him. He did not seem to notice.
"Nothing left to give her," the Alpha said. He stood by the fire with his cane, perfectly composed. "She will know whose hands did that, Miss Ashworth."
"Yours," I said.
"Look at your sister's face when she dies, and tell me again."
The doorway had filled while we were looking at each other.
A thin old man in a gray Southbay coat stood in it with a brown leather bag. Behind him were the two Southbay wolves, bruised and silent, and a handful of house servants.
"Alpha," the old man said. "There is a formula."
"Doctor."
"It is in the brown book in the cellar. I wrote it myself."
"You will go back to your work."
"The doses were never the course," the old man said, to me and not to him. "They were a quarter of it, mixed thin. I asked him every year to give the rest."
"That is enough."
"Every year he said next season."
The younger wolf lowered his eyes, and I understood that the servants had known.
Nobody in that house had said it, because he was the Alpha, and he held the vials.
"It was five years of a daughter's life," the old man said. "I am too old to be afraid of him."
Keep reading free with an account. Start He Chose My Sister, But Now He Wants Me Back from Chapter 1, then sign up free to read the rest of this chapter.
← Chapter 25 · All chapters · Chapter 27 →
Want to keep talking to characters like these? Chat with AI romance characters: AI Boyfriend · AI Girlfriend · Dark Romance · Fantasy Romance · BL (Boys’ Love) · Billionaire Boyfriend · Mafia Boyfriend · Possessive Boyfriend · Hockey Boyfriend · Older Boyfriend · K-Drama Boyfriend · Anime Boyfriend · Vampire Boyfriend · Werewolf Boyfriend · Demon Boyfriend · Fae Romance · GL (Girls’ Love) · Anime Girlfriend · Goth & Alt Girlfriend · Gamer Girlfriend · Tsundere Girlfriend · Fantasy Girlfriend