Not the Bride He Wanted novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Quiet Wolf
Across the stone, my father started to laugh.
"Well," he said to the Copper Ridge elders. "There's your King."
Somebody in the Iron Range rows laughed with him.
The Iron Range Alpha didn't laugh.
He was a broad gray man in a sheepskin coat, and he was looking at Magnus.
I stepped in front of my husband.
I didn't plan it.
"If you came to watch him fall," I said to the packs, "you got your money's worth."
"Anybody who wants more can ask me for it. Otherwise go home. The shore road ices after midnight."
Nobody moved.
Then the eldest picked up her stick and started down the path without a word, and the packs began to follow her.
My father went last.
He looked at Magnus over my shoulder all the way down.
Magnus slept that night in the chair in the study, with his boots on.
I sat up in the other chair.
He woke at four, sweating, and went down to the shore in the dark.
I followed him.
He stood at the edge of the ice-crusted sand with his shirt off in the wind.
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