Exiled Mate, Future Luna novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Challenge

"Blood," the Alpha said again, and the word moved through both packs.

"There's no such law," Rhys said.

"There is on this hill. It is older than your house, Huddleston." The Alpha did not raise his voice. "A disputed claim is settled when the claimed meets the claimant's champion in the ring. Wolf to wolf. The Stone watches."

"I'm not claimed."

"Then you'll have no objection to proving it."

He turned his head.

"Dalton."

His son stood where he had stood all evening, with his arm in the sling and his eyes on the grass.

"Father."

"You are my heir. You will meet her."

Dalton looked at me for the first time.

I saw his throat move, and I saw that he knew exactly what I knew, that the blade was inside his father's coat.

"With a broken rib," he said. "And a bitten shoulder."

"That's your concern."

"I won't fight her."

"You will," the Alpha said, so softly that only the front ranks heard, "or you will watch me do it myself."

Dalton shut his eyes.

Then he pulled his arm out of the sling and dropped it on the grass.

"Sierra," Rhys said, low, at my ear.

I turned my head.

"He's scared of you," he said. "Don't let that make you gentle."

"I won't."

"And if the old man moves..."

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