The Exiled Alpha Is My Second Chance Mate novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Maren's Last Words
Bede brought the herb chest up the hill in the bed of the heavy rider's truck.
My mother's grave lies on the slope above the hall, under a rowan she planted herself, with a flat river stone for a marker.
The whole pack had followed us up from the meadow, and they stood among the trees without a sound.
I had never asked them to come.
I knelt in the grass beside the stone with the chest in front of me, and my hands were not steady.
It was the chest I had crawled to on my elbows three years ago, dying, to find roots.
I had opened every drawer in it a hundred times.
The bottom drawer had stuck my whole life, and I had always blamed the damp.
I pulled it out entirely, and set it on the grass.
Underneath, where the wood met the box, a thin plank had been fitted flush.
I slid my thumbnail into the seam and lifted it.
There was a folded paper inside, yellowed at the edges, with a pressed sprig of yarrow tucked in the crease.
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