Three Wolves, One Irresistible Pull novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Three

I did not kneel.

I did not open my mouth, either, because I knew exactly what four thousand wolves would do if I did.

Eira would be dead before the first of them stood up.

"Let her go," I said, in an ordinary voice.

"Dawn," the Chancellor said.

He had recovered his smile.

"At dawn you will stand before the Court and sign away your claim in front of everyone."

"You will name me regent in your own hand."

"Then the girl goes home with her braids."

"And if I don't?"

"Then the Moon Court will watch me open her throat, and call it justice done on a spy."

He nodded to the guards.

They dragged Eira back through the grey door, and she did not look away from me until it shut.

"Dawn," the oldest Alpha said, to the ring.

"The Court sits at first light."

Nobody spoke.

The moon climbed over the east stone, and the stones threw long shadows.

The Host kept a tall narrow house near the north gate of Hollin.

A fire was already lit in it.

Jorund barred the door behind us.

Caelan poured wine and then put the cup down without drinking it.

I stood at the window with my back to the room.

"I could have taken them all," I said.

"The guards, the archers, the knife."

"And Eira's throat would be open," Jorund said.

"I know."

"You did right."

"I did nothing."

"You held it," Caelan said.

"You held the one thing he wanted most."

My hands were shaking on the sill.

Two warm bodies came up behind me, one on each side, and neither of them touched me.

"Brenna," Jorund said.

"I'm going to say what I want, and I'd like you to hear it."

"I want to spend tonight in this room, with my hands on you.

"Not because you're afraid.

"Because if it's the last night, I want it to be mine."

"Mine too," Caelan said.

"I want to hold you until dawn, and I want him here while I do it."

"I've got no pride about it, and I never had."

I turned around.

They stood close, two Alphas who had been trying to hate each other for two weeks, with their eyes dark and steady.

"I'm twenty-nine," I said.

"You're thirty-four, Jorund, and you're thirty-one, Caelan."

"We're grown, and nobody here is drunk and nobody is ordered."

"My voice is still.

"Anything I say tonight is only talk, and either of you can walk out through it."

"Neither of us will," Caelan said.

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