The War God Alpha's Arranged Bride novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Gudrun Speaks
Gudrun unfolded the page with a flourish.
The hall had gone so still that I could hear the paper crackle.
Brage lay on the floor of the dais with a healer pouring charcoal down his throat, and nobody looked at him.
Everybody looked at my stepmother.
"I have kept this to spare my stepdaughter," she said gently. "The page was cut from her father's ledger by his own hand."
"That is a lie," I said.
"Be quiet, Ylva. Let the Moot hear."
She lifted the paper and read in a clear, ringing voice.
"I, Aldric Marrick, Alpha of Lowmere, gave the order at the Skarn pass."
"It pulled my men off the north flank. I gave it of my own will, in fear."
"Hartfell's wounded paid for it."
A groan went along the benches.
Somebody said, "Coward," and somebody else said, "Let him be dead."
Torin did not move.
His face was the same hard calm it had been in the hall that first day, and his hand was open at his side.
Gudrun lowered the page.
"That is the man whose daughter now sits at the Alpha's right," she said. "A coward's daughter, a thief's daughter, a poisoner."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The War God Alpha's Arranged Bride are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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