The Alpha King's Human Mate novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Questions
The hall breathed out all at once.
Two hundred faces turned to me.
"He told me he hit a dog with a car," I said. "At my door, at two in the morning."
"Naturally he did," said Brangwen. "She taught him that story herself, so the world would hear it."
She said it so gently that half the benches nodded.
Haldane did not move in the king's chair, but the arm of it creaked under his hand.
An old man stood in the first row, white-haired, with a face like a walnut and the silver cord of an Elder across his chest.
"Brangwen," he said. "You and I voted the king off the dais."
"We did, and rightly."
"I voted him off the dais, not off the floor."
He turned to the room.
"A mate may not judge her mate's accuser. Nothing in the Seal's law forbids him to ask a witness a question, as any wolf in this hall may."
Brangwen's smile thinned.
"Elder, this is irregular."
"It is the third line of the oldest page we own. Read it, if you doubt me."
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