My Panther Mate & Our Little Cub novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Corra's Fall

Hesper cracked the brown wax with her thumbnail and unfolded the leaf.

"I'll read it as it's written," she said.

"Not one word changed.

If I'm lying, let the council cut out my tongue."

Her voice rumbled over the silent ring.

"I am Ila.

I write this on the days the fog lifts, which are fewer.

The tea is not medicine.

Darek pours the cup without knowing what is in it.

He loves me and he trusts her, and that is how she did it.

Last night I heard her at the door with the chief.

She said three years of it and I would never lift a hand to the cub.

Then the law would be his to take.

He said make it four if she had to.

I am not sick.

If you are reading this, my son is hungry.

Feed him.

Darek is not wicked.

Make him see it anyway."

Nobody spoke.

Somewhere in the crowd a woman began to cry quietly.

I had my hand pressed flat over my mouth.

Ila had written it in a body I was now wearing, with a hand I could have moved myself.

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