Her Brothers Scented Me at the Gate, Now All Three Claim Me novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Not the Last
Stellan's POV
A hundred and nineteen hands went up on the Stone.
Only thirty-one held back, and a handful of those wolves looked at the ground and then lifted theirs anyway, late.
By dawn the vote had a name. The pack had written down NO THREAD IS EVER CUT, and Dad, grey in the face, signed it with a pen from the Longhouse kitchen.
I didn't see most of that.
I was watching Lowen.
She had walked off the rock in my blanket and gone straight to the lake.
She'd knelt and washed her mouth and her hands in the black water, over and over.
Torsten knelt beside her and put his good hand over hers.
"It's clean," he said.
"It isn't."
"It is, Lowen."
She let him lead her up the gravel road. She didn't let any of us carry her.
At the house, Beck ran her a bath, and Linnea put out clean clothes and wouldn't be argued with.
I sat on the floor outside the bathroom door with my back against it.
That is what I do. I've done it since I was eight, whenever somebody I love is behind a door.
When she came out in Linnea's old sweatpants, she stepped over my legs and went into the bedroom.
She didn't shut the door.
I'd been a fool for four days, and I was still a fool, but I knew what an open door meant.
She sat on the bed with her wet braid over one shoulder and looked at her hands.
"Come here," she said.
I got up and sat next to her, and she leaned over and put her head on my shoulder.
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