The Cold Breakfast Bride novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Original
I didn't answer her.
I looked down the table at the doctor.
She stood up from the bench at the second table, where she'd been sitting with the garden pack's children.
"Chair," she said. "I was the pack doctor of Iron Ridge for thirty years. I drew that bond."
The chair nodded slowly.
"Speak."
She walked to the head of the table.
Four hundred wolves watched her take a small white napkin out of her shirt.
She unwrapped it.
She held the vial up into the moonlight.
Red.
Bright red, three years old, with the curl of silver lying in the bottom.
The sound that went down those tables wasn't a murmur.
It was four hundred wolves breathing in at once.
"Jessamy Oakes and Cordell Kinnear," the doctor said. "Drawn the night of her first run, three years ago this September. Kept the old way, until the first pup."
"False blood browns by morning. Every wolf here knows that."
She set the vial on the table in front of the chair.
"This is still red."
Linnea laughed.
"She was fired. She's bitter. That could be anybody's blood."
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