Everyone Who Entered the Forbidden Room Wanted Me Dead novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Door Stays Open
They had come to see the door.
Nobody said that, but I knew it when I walked down the stairs to the Moon Hall with three hundred wolves behind me.
Elias walked at my left, with my mark on his neck and his mark on mine.
June walked at my right, in a clean flannel shirt, with her father's iron key in her fist.
The corridor was cold and quiet.
The oak door at the far end stood shut, the way it had stood my whole life.
I stopped in front of it and turned around.
The pack filled the cellar and the stairs and the hall above.
The steward stood in front.
He was holding his cap in both hands.
"Alpha," he said, quietly. "What are we here for?"
"To walk in," I said.
A sound went through the crowd, low and frightened.
"Not one at a time, and not alone," I said. "The rule is over. Any of you can go in, as many as you like, whenever you like, for as long as the stone stands."
"What happens to us?"
"The truth."
I took the key from June and put it in the lock.
My hand did not shake.
The door swung open on its iron hinges, and the whine went through every wolf's mind.
They flinched.
Then it stopped.
I walked in first.
The room was round and black, with the dish at its center and the Heart Stone sitting in it, the size of a loaf of bread.
It was warm.
It had a faint steady pulse.
I put my marked hand flat on the cold wall and spoke to the stone.
"They've come," I said. "All of them. Tell them."
The room was silent for the space of a breath.
Then a woman's voice filled it, soft and unhurried, from everywhere at once.
It was not the voice that had cried and accused.
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