My Fated Mate Was a Lie, Now the Alpha King Wants the Truth novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Last Strand
I stepped up onto the dais, and the whole Moon Hall turned to look.
I saw four hundred from Tarn End, forty from Hollin, the Greyfall packs in their sheepskins, and the nine grey cords of the Council along the back wall with their hands tied in front of them.
"Before I give the stone a vow, I want to ask something," I said.
"Ask," said the Greyfall envoy.
"If I say no to the stone, and the wards fall, will you hold it against me?"
Nobody answered for a moment.
Then the cropped-haired woman stood.
"A lock that can't say no," she said, "is what Tull built. We'd sooner fall than keep that."
Someone on the Tarn End benches began to stamp.
It spread, until the stone floor shook.
I looked up at the dark dome and breathed out.
Cassian came and stood at my shoulder in his plain shirt.
He didn't touch me.
"You may leave this hall by any door you like," he said quietly. "I'll open it."
"I know," I said. "That's why I'm staying."
I laid my left hand on his silver mark.
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