They Never Wanted a Female Gamma, So I Built the Pack That Beat Theirs novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Sentence
We took the seat at midnight, on the hill, among the stones.
I had not wanted it done in the hall.
The cemetery was where the Gamma's work had always been done, and I wanted the dead to see it.
The whole Culm Bank pack came up the cemetery road behind me in the dark with lanterns.
Black Diamond came after, in twos and threes, a long line of coats on the hill road.
I had not asked them.
They came anyway, forty and then sixty and then more, and stood among the leaning stones with their hats in their hands.
The priest of St. Michael's came last, in his black cassock, with a small brass bowl of the Epiphany water.
He said it was not a sacrament and he was not there as a priest.
He said he was there because his own mother was buried on that hill.
I stood at the head of my father's grave with the shovel in my hand.
The sod over it had barely knit.
It lay in dark ridges over him, and the Gamma list lay folded on the headstone under a rock from the strip-pit bank.
Tomas had brought it.
I had let him put it there.
"I'll say how this goes," I said, to the hill.
"The Gamma carries the dead.
"Alone, she dies at forty.
"The old Alphas knew it for two hundred years and let her.
"I won't do it alone, and I won't ask any wolf to do it for me."
I looked down the slope at the lanterns.
"I'm asking anyone here who wants it," I said.
"Not to be the Gamma.
"Only to carry a share.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of They Never Wanted a Female Gamma, So I Built the Pack That Beat Theirs are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
← Chapter 20 · All chapters · Chapter 22 →
Want to keep talking to characters like these? Chat with AI romance characters: AI Boyfriend · AI Girlfriend · Dark Romance · Fantasy Romance · BL (Boys’ Love) · Billionaire Boyfriend · Mafia Boyfriend · Possessive Boyfriend · Hockey Boyfriend · Older Boyfriend · K-Drama Boyfriend · Anime Boyfriend · Vampire Boyfriend · Werewolf Boyfriend · Demon Boyfriend · Fae Romance · GL (Girls’ Love) · Anime Girlfriend · Goth & Alt Girlfriend · Gamer Girlfriend · Tsundere Girlfriend · Fantasy Girlfriend