Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie novel · Chapter 21 of 40
Chapter 21: The Name With a Price
Maren took the quill out of the scribe's hand before he could set it to the page. She pointed it at Kael, thin and steady.
'You,' she said. 'Read it to her. Aloud. I want to hear how it sounds in a man's mouth.'
Kael did not take the quill. He stood at the foot of the bed, the founding seal closed in his left hand, and looked at the sheet the scribe had laid flat across the bed table. Sera read the top line upside down from where she stood.
RECOGNITION OF BLOODLINE AND RESTORATION OF NAME.
'Read it,' Maren said again. 'You asked to stand where she stands. Stand there and read.'
Kael picked up the page. His eyes moved down it, then stopped, and Sera watched his jaw set the way it did when he had found the part of a document written to be skimmed past.
'Read the clause,' Maren said.
'Guardianship of the issue,' Kael said. 'Until the heirs reach their majority, the recognized heir and her children reside within the pack's protection, under the Alpha's authority, and the Alpha's seal countersigns all matters of custody, residence, and travel. The Alpha's protection extends to the border and no further, and any departure from pack lands requires his countersignature.' He looked up. 'You wrote this before I walked in.'
'I wrote it twenty-three years ago,' Maren said. 'I have been waiting for someone to read it to.'
Under the words, the old woman's unspoken thought came through clear as a second voice laid over the first. She will take it. She has wanted the name her whole life. A woman with no name takes whatever name she is handed.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–20 of Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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