They Hid My Fated Mate, So I Left With the Rival Alpha novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Practice More, Chet
Sorcha unfolded the page and held it up to the Council, so the whole bank could see.
It was covered in signatures.
Fifty of them, in rows, each one a looping H, each one a little closer than the last to the real thing.
Down the margin, in a different hand, someone had written two lines.
"Read it," said the gaunt Alpha.
"The top line says: 'Practice more, Chet,'" said Sorcha. "The second says: 'If she bonds across the river we lose the pass. Keep her in the kitchen.'"
Brendan laughed.
It was a good laugh, easy and warm, and it did not reach his eyes.
"A page of scribbles. Anyone could have written that."
"Not anyone," said Sorcha. "It's your hand."
"Sorcha, my love..."
"Do not call me that on this bank."
Her voice was low and entirely steady.
"I have addressed your letters for ten years," she said. "I know the tail on your y. I know that you press so hard on the last letter that the nib splits. I found this folded inside the treaty binder in your study, under the clause about the pass."
"You went through my study."
"I did," said Sorcha. "I'm your Luna. It's my study too."
He turned to the Council.
"This is a woman scorned. She left me in the middle of a river in front of two hundred wolves. You cannot take her word."
"We don't have to," said the gaunt Alpha.
She nodded to the clerk, who stood and brought out a leather folder.
"Your signature is on forty-one pack documents in the Council archive, Alpha Wadsworth. We compared them on the ride down." She slid the margin page across the boards beside an old treaty. "The tail on the y. The split nib. The slant of the capitals."
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