She Killed Me Once, So This Time the Whole Pack Is Watching novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Before the Whole Pack
We came down the hill into the noise of the hall.
Bram's father had held the ceremony early.
He had seen the sun and guessed, and he stood on the dais under the cedar boughs with three hundred and seventy people on the benches behind the chains.
They sat very still, and their eyes were on the stone bowl.
"The door!" Bram shouted at the fighters outside. "Cut it! Now!"
Four of them swung axes at the chain.
Inside, the Alpha was already speaking.
"Rosalind Greer, daughter of the north ridge, we call you before the pack as the mate chosen by the moon..."
The floor of the dais cracked.
The stone bowl jumped on its pedestal and split down the middle, and a gray wolf came out of the hole with its mouth open.
The hall screamed.
Another came out behind it, and another.
"Cellar!" the Alpha roared.
The fighters on the stairs poured through the side door, and the first rogue went down under six of them.
The chain broke.
The great doors banged open, and the pack tried to run, and Bram and I came in against them.
I shoved through a wall of shoulders.
"Move! Let me through!"
Harlan rose out of the hole on the dais, filthy and dripping, with a hand on either edge of the floor.
He saw me.
"There she is," he said. "The bride."
He lunged, and the Alpha hit him sideways with a pole off the altar, and the pole broke.
Bram's wolf cleared the benches in one leap.
He landed on Harlan's back, and the two of them went down hard on the dais.
I came up the steps behind them.
The hall was chaos. Rogues and fighters rolled across the boards, the jars of water cracked and flooded the floor, and somewhere in the back a child was shrieking.
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