Rejected By My Alpha: My White Wolf Ignited novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: The Mother

Nobody in the hall moved.

Then Rosamund laughed.

It was a small, dry, pleasant sound, the one she used when a guest spilled tea.

"Look at her," she said to the room. "Burned her own hand on a stone that wasn't hers. Booed off a hill by her own pack. Now she'll say anything to get a seat at somebody's table."

"I'm saying it to this table," Cressida said from the stands. "You told me she smiled at him while he drank. You said his widow never even guessed. You said it was the best night's work you ever did."

Her voice shook, but she didn't sit down.

Beside me, Alaric made a sound.

He was gripping the table edge, and the sweat was running down his face now, and his whole arm was trembling.

I looked at him.

I thought about leaving him there.

Then I reached across the table and put two fingers on the inside of his wrist.

He flinched.

"Hold still," I said.

The fire went into him small and fast, white as a needle.

I found the bitter in a second.

There was only a mouthful of it, and I burned it out of him.

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