Taming the Wolf King novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Fire
My phone was in my right hand.
I put my hand in my blazer pocket.
My thumb found the side button, then the screen, then the little red circle I'd used a hundred times to record Grandpa's wolves howling.
I pressed it.
Raife came down the spiral stair one step at a time.
Annis had vanished.
One second she was at my elbow, and the next there was only a gap between two shelves and the faint smell of cardamom.
Omegas hide.
"You can take the gloves off," Raife said. "The archivist has gone for his tea. I told him to take his time."
I didn't take the gloves off.
He stopped on the other side of the reading desk and looked down at the Charter Book.
He laid one finger on the cover, gently, the way he'd touched the page at the council.
"Beautiful thing," he said. "Two hundred years old. I used to read it as a boy. My brother never did. He wasn't a reader."
"Your brother," I said.
"Mm."
"You told the packs he went over the ridge alone."
His eyes came up to mine.
They were the same grey as Caspian's.
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