Not the Bride He Wanted novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Ring
I didn't step back from her.
"Then get there early," I said. "The front row fills up."
I picked her needle up off the floor and put it in her hand.
"And finish your quilt, Kirsten. You've never finished anything."
The woman with the gray braids laughed out loud.
So did the one next to her.
My sister walked out of the back room with twenty women laughing at her, and I went home to learn how to beat Aksel Sund.
The ring on the bluff was a circle of white stones forty feet across, sunk in the grass behind the oath stone.
At noon on Saturday the snow had stopped, and the lake was the color of steel.
All seven packs stood around the stones.
More than at the Frost Moon.
Nobody had seen a Queen stand for her King in their lifetime, either.
My father stood at the north edge with the Copper Ridge elders.
Kirsten stood beside him in a red coat, in the front row, like she'd promised.
Aksel stood in the ring already, stripped to the waist in the cold, rolling his shoulders.
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