My Alpha's Regret Came Too Late novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Cold Ford's Fire
"I don't know how to light a Homecoming Fire," I said.
The Keeper snorted.
"You stack wood and put a match to it. The rest is who comes."
She turned the big book around so I could see the page.
There was no spell on it. No secret words.
Just a list, in brown ink, of every keeper of Cold Ford for two hundred years.
The last name had a line under it and a date, twelve years ago.
Under that, the page was empty.
"Write yourself in," the Keeper said. "Then send word to both packs."
I wrote my name.
My hand shook a little, and the rope burns on my palm stung.
Emrys stood behind my chair and read it over my shoulder, and didn't say anything at all.
We lit it two weeks later, on a Saturday in the middle of November, the night first snow would have come in any other year.
The yard had been cleared down to the frozen gravel.
The carpenter had built a stone ring by the river, and the boy had carried half the stones himself, one at a time.
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