The Alpha Hunts Every Runner, and I Took Him Down novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Knew
He stayed on his knees in the wet grass, and sixty wolves held their breath.
"Get up," I said.
He didn't move.
"I said get up, Soren. I'm not having you grovel for a crowd."
He lifted his head, and for a second I saw the twenty-four-year-old who'd signed the paper.
"You kneel when I tell you to," I said, low enough that only he could hear. "Not before."
He rose.
It took him a moment.
"You carried that order in your head for eight years," I said, loud now. "Say it."
"Greta..."
"Say it to them. All of it, in your own voice. Right here."
He turned to face the slope.
He didn't need the paper.
"You heard it in the hall, and now you hear it from the Stone," he said.
"I am done standing behind the paper. Anyone who wants my seat on the council can come and take it."
A woman near the front put her hand over her mouth.
"He taught half of you to read a river," Soren said, and his voice finally cracked.
"I let him be driven out like a dog, and then I ate supper."
The old man in the feed cap took his cap off and held it against his chest.
Nobody said a word.
I let the silence run until it hurt, and then I looked at Sigrid.
She nodded once.
"That's the last of it," I said. "Go home. All of you."
They went down the hill slowly, in twos and threes, and nobody spoke above a murmur.
Jorgen took his father by the arm.
Orrin let himself be led.
Dell hugged me so hard my ribs creaked and said, "I'm going to be sick," and went to be sick behind a rock.
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