Three Hybrid Brothers Locked Me in Their Tower, and the Man Who Sent Me There Is the Real Monster novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: Enoch

I had my trousers on before I'd finished standing.

"Stay inside," I said.

"Dally."

"Stay inside, Rook.

"He's come to my father's yard to speak to me, and he's going to find that he's speaking to the one person here who can read."

Rook was pulling his wet shirt over his head.

He stopped.

"I'm not going to let you walk out there alone."

"You aren't letting me do anything," I said.

"I'm telling you where I'll be."

I looked at him in the stove light.

He was barefoot and half-dressed, with his mouth swollen, and his face was tight with something that wasn't fear for himself.

"You can stand in the doorway," I said.

"If he comes within ten feet of me, you can do whatever a raven does.

"Not before."

"Yes," said Rook.

I put on my coat.

I took the two rings from the desk and put them on, one on each hand.

Marian's on my left, my mother's on my right.

I opened the door.

The cold struck my face.

Cyrus Hemenway stood in the middle of the frozen yard, a dozen paces off, with the tin held in both hands and his camel coat unbuttoned over a good gray suit.

He had come alone.

His man was in the car, and the headlamps lit the derricks and the winches and the long wet wire of the fence.

"Miss Dally," he said, with great warmth.

"What a relief.

"I was told you'd come down the causeway, and I couldn't believe it.

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