He Stole My Title, So I Took His True Heir novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Who Ate Her Cooking
At sundown the hall was so full that people stood in the doorway in their coats.
The old elder set two wooden bowls on the long table, one white and one black.
Each household got a river stone from a basket at the door.
White for yes, and black for no.
"Before the vote," the uncle said, rising, "I'd like to speak."
"You may," said the elder.
The uncle buttoned his long wool coat.
"I'm not a cruel man," he said. "I held this pack together through three bad winters, while a Luna who liked to be thanked took the credit and left on a whim."
"That is a lie, and I think you know it," a woman called.
It was the pup's mother, from the middle benches.
The elder rapped for quiet.
"Willa Brandvold abandoned her post eight months pregnant," the uncle said, "and returned with a daughter and a ranch alpha. Ask yourselves whose hands you want near the seat."
"Hands that signed a dye receipt," I said.
"We've heard that."
"You haven't read it."
I took it from my pocket.
It was a slip of yellow paper, the carbon copy, gone soft with handling.
I had taken it from the Luna's old desk myself, the night after the pup collapsed.
"Captain," I said.
The guard captain stepped out of the back row in his uniform coat, and he took it from my hand.
"I carried it to the dye house on the fourth of the month," he said, to the room. "I handed it to the dyer."
"The receipt is initialed by the Alpha's uncle," I said. "He paid for wolfsbane in the lining of that cloak."
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