The Exiled Alpha Is My Second Chance Mate novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Judgment
They tried Josiah Scrope at noon, at the Stone, with the gold gone out of the granite.
Nobody had to light it for him.
He stood at the foot of the slab with his wrists bound in grass rope and his pearl snaps gone, and the whole pack had come to watch.
Torquil sat in the seat the Moot had dragged out of the hall, a plain oak chair that had been his father's.
He did not look comfortable in it, and I loved him for that.
I stood at his right side, and Maddock stood at his left, which no one had arranged.
The white-braided elder held up the Beta's ledger.
"Ten years of margin notes," she said. "Every Winter Moon, a payment from the Alpha's strongbox to the Beta's. Four hundred dollars the first year. Four thousand the tenth."
"Alpha Dacre's death money."
The Beta stood at the back of the crowd with his arms hanging.
He had stood behind his daughter at this Stone two nights ago.
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