The Alpha Rejected His Scentless Mate at the Altar, So She Came Back as the Luna He Kneels For novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Bought

Every head in the hall turned to the Council table.

Theron was sitting exactly where he had sat all supper.

He had a glass of red wine in his hand.

He didn't put it down.

"Me?" he said.

Then he laughed.

It was a warm, easy laugh, the kind that makes other people want to laugh along.

A few of the visiting Alphas did.

"A Beta caught with his hand in the till," Theron said, "points across the room at the nearest stranger. I'd do the same in his place."

"You were at the bridge," Tiernan said.

"I was. I'd heard Ashenveil was throwing a girl in the river. I went to catch her." Theron turned his glass. "Forgive me for being kind."

Garrick was still laughing between the two warriors.

"Ask her," he said. "Ask her who pays her bills."

Everyone looked at me.

The Speaker leaned forward on her cane.

"Well, child? You've lived in his house five years. Is it him?"

I opened my mouth.

I knew the answer.

I had known it since the word river, if I was honest.

Five hundred a month. A coat ready at the bridge. I was told six.

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