Me - Secret Side Piece?! Hell No! I Took Daughter and Got Far Away from You Asshole! novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: Stripped

"Say it again, Mother," Bram said. "What did you pay?"

The Dowager's mouth opened and nothing came out.

The senior elder rapped the dais twice.

"Dowager Luna, you have spoken before the Council," she said. "The memory-keeper has it all."

"Let the record stand."

The charm-caster flared once, and the Dowager flinched.

Rowan stepped up beside me with Lark on his arm and his phone in his hand.

"Elder, I ask leave to add to the record," he said.

"Granted, Alpha MacClellan."

He held up the phone.

"Nine days ago I stood in a Silverthorn pawn house with a recorder in the coat of a Kestrel lawyer," he said.

The lawyer at the lectern went the color of paste.

Rowan pressed play.

The lawyer's voice filled the hall, thin and eager.

"The Dowager wants the Alder lender line entered under Kestrel before the hearing."

"Lender daughters pass the line. The mother is optional. The pup is the prize."

Nobody in the gallery breathed.

"Mine," Bram said, very quietly. "The pup is the prize?"

He looked at his mother.

"You wanted Lark. You never wanted me to have a daughter."

"I wanted the Kestrel line to last!" the Dowager snapped.

"You wanted to keep drinking from her," Pru said from her seat. Her voice was flat.

"And you knew," the senior elder said to the Dowager. "You and the Wexleys."

Rowan took a folded page from his coat.

"This is a copy of the Silverthorn broker's ledger," he said. "For six years, Wexley Grain paid him every spring to keep Morwen's mother's cuff off the market."

"Six years ago, the Blackfang debt note was bought by a Wexley agent two days before it was called in on Bram."

"The blood-debt that Morwen paid with that cuff was arranged."

I felt the room tilt.

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