My Son Is the Secret That Will Break Them novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: What He Signed

The dining room emptied faster than I would have believed.

The Alpha stood, said "Enough," in a voice that cracked, and walked out on Cora's arm.

Talbot left without a word, and Rowan followed him out with his head down.

My investigator took Arlo to the car, because the boy was tired and I didn't want him in that room another minute.

Then it was Torin and me, the long table, and the dark river in the windows.

"You had no right," I said.

"To say it?"

"To say it in front of them."

"They were about to call my father a monster." His voice was level. "I wasn't going to let them."

"I was going to fix it."

"How?"

I didn't have an answer, so I went on the attack instead.

"Five years, Torin. You never came after me. Everything I got from you was on paper. An order freezing my mother's widow's share, signed with your name, the week after the funeral."

He took a step back.

"I never froze anything."

"I have the order."

"Show me."

I took out my phone, scrolled to the scan I had kept, and held it up.

It was a single page with the pack seal, my name, and his signature at the bottom.

He read it twice.

His face changed slowly as he read his own signature.

"That's my name," he said. "That isn't my hand."

"It looks like your hand."

"It looks like it was traced by someone who watched me sign." He pulled a folded paper from inside his jacket. "Look at this."

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