The Alpha Crowned the Orphan, So Both His Betas Followed Me Out novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Teeth

"Yes," Tobe said. "That's your bite."

The water had gone lukewarm around my ribs.

I still had his wrist in both hands, and I could not make my fingers open.

The pull in my chest ran to him, and it ran across the tub to Jubal, and it did not care what I thought about either one of them.

"Tell me," I said.

"Shy," Jubal said. "Let's get out of the water first."

"Tell me in the water."

Jubal, who argued with everything, shut his mouth.

Tobe looked at the wall over my head for a long time.

"Your first Run," he said. "Eight years ago this month. The Buffalo was up from three days of rain."

"I know it was up. I don't remember it."

"You were the Hearth-daughter, so you crossed the ford first, alone. That's the custom."

"My father stood on the bank," I said.

"He did," said Tobe. "He didn't see you go under."

I let that sit.

I had been told for eight years that I took a fall on the rocks that night and woke up in my own bed.

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