The Exiled Alpha Is My Second Chance Mate novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Heir's Choice
Nobody on that meadow breathed.
Josiah looked at the button, and then at his son, and for one second there was no smile on him at all.
"It's a button," he said. "I have a hundred shirts."
"You have one matchbox," Maddock said. "I took it from your study an hour ago."
His voice climbed and cracked, and he kept going.
"Ten years you kept it. Why would a man keep that?"
"Son."
"Don't call me that out here."
Maddock turned to face the pack, and I saw his shoulders square.
He had always known how to hold a crowd.
He had never once used it for something that cost him.
"Three years ago I stood on this grass and rejected Dilys Nancarrow," he said.
"You all thought it was my choice."
"It wasn't."
He pulled the signet ring off his finger and held it up to the torches.
"I never asked him why, because obeying him was easier."
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