Escaping the Arrogant Dark Moon Alpha novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Judgment
Nobody answered him.
Then the eldest elder climbed off the back of a patroller's sled, leaning on her cane.
She looked at the bare gray scar where the Crown had been.
She looked at the mother with two little girls in pink helmets.
"Back to the hall," she said. "All of you. We're finishing this indoors."
By eight o'clock the great hall was packed to the walls.
Families sat on the stairs in their ski boots.
The Dark Moon staff stood in the kitchen doorway with the cook in front, her arms folded.
The eldest elder laid a stack of printed photographs on the long table.
The page on Roman's desk.
His nameplate.
The gap behind the founder's frame.
"These came to me on the seventh," she said. "I didn't answer. I wanted to see who would lie to me in person."
Ginny walked up the hall with her grocery bag.
She took out her grandmother's charter and opened it to the cut.
The elder laid the photograph of the page beside the stub in the binding.
The ragged edges matched.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Escaping the Arrogant Dark Moon Alpha are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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