He Ignored My Pain, So I Left Him in Regret novel · Chapter 18 of 32

Chapter 18: Rafe's POV: Who He Was Fed On

Rafe's POV

I read it standing, because I could not have got up again if I sat.

The ledger lay open under the lamp, and Ivy's hands held the edge of the page.

Price: forty barrels of barley and a wagon.

That was what the carry had cost, and it was nothing.

I read the line below it three times.

The bearer to be told it is an honour, and never told what it holds.

I had been told my wolf was hardy.

Everyone had said it, from the day I took the Alpha's staff.

The captains had said it at the fire, and the healer had said it over my head.

The pack had made a joke of it, that the Hollin never took a cold.

I had been proud.

I had walked among sick men and healers' wagons with a straight back, and I had thought, this is what a good Alpha is, this is what steadiness looks like.

I thought of the night at the barn.

I had gone through the smoke with my sleeves over my face and felt only a faint heat on my skin.

I had thought it was courage.

Four years of her limping, and her wrapped hands, and her flat voice saying it was nothing.

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