The Fake Daughter Sold Her Blood, So the Alpha Bought Her Back novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: The Wake

Rhys wanted to walk in through the front door, and I made him stay.

"If Conrad sees you alive, he sends the silver men tonight," I said. "If he thinks you're dead, he gets sloppy."

"I'm not hiding behind you."

"You're not hiding. You're the reason I'm not afraid."

He held my face in both hands for a long moment.

"Six hours," he said. "Then I come out, whatever's happening."

"Six hours."

I drove his car alone to the Hargrove timber hall with his shirt tucked into my jeans.

The parking lot was full.

Black Pine wolves in dark suits stood in groups of four with their arms folded, and the Hargrove wolves stood apart by the fire pit, silent.

Nobody had said it aloud yet, but I could smell the grief on the Hargrove side and the greed on the other.

I walked in through the main doors.

Every head turned.

Conrad sat in the carved chair at the head of the hall, Rhys's chair, with Sabrina on a stool at his knee in a black dress and a veil.

Her eyes were red, and she was crying for the cameras.

"Willa Ransome," Conrad said, with a pained sigh. "I'm sorry for your loss. I know you were close."

"Close how?"

He didn't blink.

"The Alpha's blood donor," he said, loud enough for the whole room. "A kindness he allowed. We are all grateful, but you can't be here, darling. This is a family hour."

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