One Minute Younger Always Second Best Until I Walked Out the Door novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Witnesses Only

Jonas's POV

I told my wolves one thing at the Ironwood gate.

"We stand against the wall. We watch. If one of you draws a claw tonight, I will take it off you myself."

Forty Black Creek wolves filed into the Long Hall in their work coats and lined the timber wall without a sound.

Nobody had put a Black Creek boot inside that hall in three years.

Nobody stopped us.

Two hundred Ironwood faces turned and looked.

Roxana walked in front of me down the middle of the floor.

She had her braid tied back and a leather ledger under her arm, and she walked straight, without hurry.

The silence went ahead of her down the floor.

I had spent three years imagining this building.

I had imagined it burning.

In my head Colt Radley had been standing right where he was standing now, on the dais, under the dead Alpha banners, and I had been walking across this floor toward him with nothing in my hands.

He was not standing.

He sat on the top step in his shirtsleeves with his elbows on his knees.

He did not look up when we came in.

Behind him, in a chair set on the dais itself, was Cassia Hargraves, with the Alpha's silver ring on her thumb and her hands folded in her lap.

She smiled at Roxana.

She smiled at me, too.

I kept my hands loose at my sides, and I felt the old rage come up my spine.

It had nowhere to go.

Roxana stopped at the foot of the dais.

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