Sold to the Alpha novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Council
The hall erupted.
Lords were on their feet, shouting about the river, the border, the south, and how many wolves it took to hold a ford.
Ivar stood in the middle of it with his hands folded and his eyes full of gentle sorrow.
He had just made himself the only man in the room who sounded sure.
I climbed onto the lowest step of the dais with the half-burnt book in my fist.
"My lords!"
Nobody heard me.
I banged the iron lid on the stone floor.
The noise rang through the vaulted roof.
It stopped them.
"You want a man you can trust to hold the border," I said.
"Then look at the man who tells the south when to cross it."
Ivar sighed.
"Child."
"Here is the Hold's cellar book from eleven years ago.
"Half of it burned, because someone lit the bake-room last night.
"This page didn't."
I held it up to the rust lord.
He took it with two fingers and read, and his heavy face changed.
"One decanter of the Alpha's reserve," he read aloud.
"Signed for by the cook's stamp.
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