This Time, I Accept Your Brother's Claim novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Vote
Auden didn't look at his brother.
He looked at the five chairs.
"I've called the Council to strike the Healer's Writ," he said.
The benches rustled.
"I'll say why, and then you can tell me I'm nineteen. I know I'm nineteen."
A few people laughed. Not the Alphas.
"I've worked in the infirmary for two years. I've read the healer's ledger. Every bottle that's left that storeroom in three hundred years is written down in it."
He held up a thin brown book.
"The women's names are in here. Not one of them signed anything."
He set the ledger on the stone table beside the Writ.
"A King shouldn't need a law that lets him reach inside his wife. I don't want it. I'm asking you to let me throw it out."
He sat down.
That was all.
It was the best speech I'd heard in that room in either life.
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