Taming the Wolf King novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: Struck Out
They confirmed him before the moon set.
The packs did it the old way, standing, one by one, every alpha in the east saying his name out loud.
Caspian stood on the dais with raw red rings around both wrists and didn't shift once.
I stood at the bottom of the steps with coal dust on my knees.
When it was done, he came straight down to me.
He didn't kiss me in front of everyone.
He picked me up off the flagstones instead, all the way off my feet, and held on.
"Please put me down," I said into his collar.
"No," said the King.
The archive was full that afternoon.
The new council squeezed down the spiral stair, and the old man in tweed, and the old King in borrowed clothes, leaning on his son.
The old archivist stood guard over the reading desk.
The Charter Book lay open under the lamp.
The black lines sat in the margin, glossy and neat.
Caspian took a pen from the desk.
Then he held it out to me.
"You found it," he said. "You strike it."
"I'm not anybody here."
"Sally," said the old King. His voice was still rough. "Please."
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