Chapter 22: The Verdict

When the message ended, nobody in the hall moved.

The phone lay on the table with its cracked screen dark.

Cormac was on his knees in the aisle.

I hadn't seen him go down.

He had both hands pressed flat on the floor, and his shoulders were shaking, and he was making no sound at all.

Beside the dais, Felicity had started to cry.

It wasn't the pretty crying.

It was ugly and loud.

She kept saying, "He said he loved me," over and over, hollow and bewildered.

The old woman rose from her chair.

She waited until the room was still.

"The council has heard Kai Colquhoun," she said.

"The council will now hear testimony."

They brought in the rogue first.

He came in chains, with the scar through his lip and a river scout on each arm.

He looked around the hall.

"Name?" said the dry man.

"Doesn't matter."

"Who hired you to take the Luna of Ironwood to Wolf Creek Falls?"

"The omega." He tipped his head at Felicity. "Forty thousand.

Twenty up front, in a bank envelope.

She told us where the ledge was and where to stand.

She said to wait until the Luna was alone."

Felicity said, "He's lying."

"I have the envelope," said a river scout. "It's in her handwriting."

Felicity put her face in her hands.

A second scout stepped up, an older woman who had stood on the guest dock.

"I saw her go off the dock at Kettle River," she said. "She never once looked back at the shore.

She wasn't afraid of that water at all, so why would she tell the Alpha she was?"

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