My Alpha Told Me to Stop Needing Him. So I Disappeared novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: The Circle

Corbin called the pack back into the great hall at dusk the next day, and this time he sent for Tiffany himself.

She came in her gray cardigan with the tote on her arm, and her eyes were already wet.

The hall was fuller than it had been for the apology.

Word moves fast in a pack, and every wolf in Redwood had heard that something had been found.

I stood beside Ewan at the edge of the circle.

Tobias set the tin on a small table in the middle of the stone, and Corbin took off the lid.

"Tiffany," Corbin said. "Tell them about the night at the creek."

"Oh, Corbin." She pressed her fingers to her mouth. "Not this again. I pulled her out of the water. I carried her to the road."

"You did, and you wore leather work gloves to do it."

"I was in the garden."

"Jonah's garden had a hose and a trowel in it," Tobias said. "Not a pair of gloves that thick."

A few wolves shifted, and the sound went round the walls.

Corbin lifted the knife out of the glove and held it up to the lanterns.

The tip was snapped, and the groove along the spine caught the light.

"This was under the hearth stone in your cottage," he said. "The Ember Creek healer fitted the broken end to the sliver she took out of my wife's back."

"It fits, edge to edge. She's here, and she'll say so to any of you."

The old woman with the white braids lifted her chin from the front row and nodded once.

Tiffany's eyes moved over the faces around her.

I watched her look for a friend and not find one.

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