My Mate Exiled Me for Being Weak, Then Couldn't Smell Me in His Dungeon novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: What He Did

Ilsa's POV

I came through the yard gate with the ledger under my arm, and Edric behind me, and I saw Roan on his knees on the stones.

His father lay beneath him, bare-chested, with his throat exposed.

The leaders stood in a ring.

Nobody was talking.

"A daughter," Roan said.

His voice was thin and flat.

"She would have been born with a gift, son. Her mother's line was seers, on the mother's side, and gifted blood breeds true."

Ansel said it slowly, and clearly, and I realized he was speaking to the leaders as much as to his son.

"By the oldest law we have, a gifted heir stands above the king's own line. Above mine. Above yours."

"So you gave her mother tea."

"A few drops, every night. It was slow, and it was clean. Nobody suspects a father who pours for his son's wife."

I heard a leader behind me whisper, "Gods."

Ansel turned his head and found me in the torchlight.

I saw him see the ledger.

He didn't deny it.

I think that was the worst thing he did that night.

"The girl in the cemetery," he said. "I knew what you were the moment I smelled you on my son's land. White blood. A white wolf is born once in a century, and she outranks every king who has ever lived."

"So I had the border patrols hunt the rogues. Wolves with gifts will always run to the hills. It was easy to put them in a cage."

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