Sold to the Alpha novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Brenmoor Burns
I could not sleep, so I went down to knead bread.
It was the dead hour before dawn, and the bakehouse was warm and dark and smelled of yeast.
Hetta had come in before me and lit one lamp.
She did not say anything about the river.
She slapped a lump of dough in front of me, pushed a bowl of flour at my elbow, and went on with her own.
"You smell like wet dog," she said.
"I was a wet dog."
"It suits you."
I laughed, and kneaded, and for a quarter of an hour it felt like ordinary life.
Up in the Wolf Tower, Ketil was sleeping at last with his leg bound.
The Beta and every rider with a good horse were still across the Fallow Ford, hunting the south Alpha.
The lords were asleep in the guest wing, with their grooms in the stables.
The Hold had perhaps thirty fighting men inside it that night.
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