The Alpha's Claim on the Border Ledger novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Torin Pays
Two guards stood at the foot of the tower stair on the evening of the nineteenth day.
They were polite about it.
"Alpha's orders, Miss Rhona," said the younger one, not meeting my eyes. "You're to stay inside the walls tonight."
I looked at the pair of them.
I looked at the long bar leaning in the corner that had not been there the night before.
Then I went past them, because they did not know how to stop a woman who had once run nine miles in the dark, and I headed for the great hall.
It was full.
Every Hawkscar wolf was there, boots and cloaks and bows, ready to ride for the pass road before dark.
The forty-one widows sat along the back wall with their children asleep across their laps.
Torin stood on the dais with his coat on and his wound healed to a pink seam.
He saw me in the doorway, and the two guards behind me, and the colour left his face.
"Wait," he said to the room.
It went quiet at once.
"I have something to say to my mate, and to all of you, before we ride."
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