Alpha Hayley's Destined Mate novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Running Together
I sat very still on the stone floor.
"Soaking wet," I said.
"Right to the hair." Cleve's hands were twisting the blanket. "He said he'd gone in after you. He said if anybody asked, I was to say he was at the game. So I did. I said it for two years."
"Okay."
"Hayley, what did he do?"
I stood up.
"Stay in here," I said. "Don't eat anything anybody but Myra brings you. Don't drink anything but that jug."
He looked at the jug in his hands. Then he looked at me and understood.
Torrey was still outside the steel door when I came out.
I told him all of it in a whisper, under the grandstand, with the boards creaking over our heads.
He listened without moving.
"The keeper wants a witness," I said when I'd finished. "Cleve's not a witness. Cleve's a boy who saw his father wet. Lon will say he swam the river looking for me, and he'll cry, and they'll believe him."
"The grey's a witness."
"Then we get the grey. Tomorrow night. Before Lon gets to him first."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Alpha Hayley's Destined Mate are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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