My Alpha Expected Me to Read His Mind, So I Left His Pack novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: What the Page Said

The Table met in Garrick Hall at nine the next morning, and every wolf in the pack came to watch.

They filled the benches along the walls and stood three deep in the doorway.

Ansel sat at the head of the long table with his bandaged wrists on the wood.

I sat at his right hand, in the chair that had been empty for ten years.

Cordelia stood at the far end between two hunters, in a plain grey dress.

She had not slept.

Her face was composed and sorry and very white.

Her father came in last, with his ash staff, and he did not look at her.

He looked at the Table.

"I have heard what was done last night," the elder said. "It was a trap."

His voice filled the hall.

"A girl was fed wine and asked leading questions, with the doors left open and a clerk behind them."

"My daughter said what she was led to say."

"Papa, I..." Cordelia began.

"Be quiet," he said, without turning his head.

He lifted his chin to the pack.

"The Law does not judge a wolf by a supper. The letters were stolen from my desk. The girl is a sick runaway with a grudge, and the Alpha is her lover."

A murmur ran around the benches.

Under the table, something moved against my hand.

It was Ansel's hand, his fingers closing around mine.

He didn't look at me.

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