They Hanged My Parents as Traitors, Now the Prince Needs My Heart novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Costly

The prince sent the call through the Row at noon.

Every wolf who wished to hear him was to come to the traitors' field at four.

I did not know what he meant to say.

He had not told me.

He had only said, "I'd like you there, and I'd like you to stand wherever you want."

I stood at the back, by the hedge, with Dafydd on one side and the one-eyed guardsman on the other.

Four hundred wolves came.

They came up the lane in their work clothes, with children on their shoulders.

There were old people on sticks and kitchen girls with their aprons still on.

The Council came too, in a tight group at the wall, twelve old lords with stony faces.

The Regent was not among them.

Olwen stood alone at the end of the hedge, with her collar turned up.

The field was a small square of rough grass, and the two stones stood at the far end with their crooked letters.

Cadoc stood in front of them, bareheaded, in a plain dark coat.

He did not climb on anything.

He did not use the Command, and I could see it cost him to keep it down.

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