He Starved My Wolf for Ten Years, So I Burned His Proof novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Every Cup
They brought Fiona back through the courtyard doors with two of the old Alpha's men holding her arms.
She had run barefoot as far as the gate.
Her cream dress was torn at the hem, and her braid had come undone.
The hall had gone back to its benches.
The visored men sat in a row along the east wall in silver chains, their visors lying in a pile at their feet.
Without them, they were only a dozen tired men with pale eyes.
Not one of them would look up.
Emmett Crane sat in the middle of the circle, on the chalk, with his broken arm strapped to his chest and two Alphas standing over him.
He did not speak.
I sat on the edge of the ninth chair's dais with Maeve stitching my forearm.
The needle went in and out, and I felt every pull.
Bram stood behind me, a half step off my shoulder.
He had not left it since the circle.
"Hold still, my girl," Maeve said.
"I am holding still."
"You're shaking."
"That's the green," I said. "It'll be out of me by morning."
Fiona was set on her knees before me.
The hall waited.
"Say it," said the old Alpha of the north. "Say it to her."
Fiona lifted her head.
Her hazel eyes, which I had seen warm and bright over ten years of tea cups, were red and dry.
"I carried the cup," she said.
Her voice was small.
"Louder," said the woman Alpha at the end of the arc.
"I carried the cup!" Fiona said. "Every morning. For ten years. I took it down the logging road at six o'clock in a thermos, and I left it on the drop at the gate, and I wrote on the lid.
"I knew what was in it. I knew when the dose was working, because your hand shook, and Papa said the shaking meant it was.
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