They Hanged My Parents as Traitors, Now the Prince Needs My Heart novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Names Spoken

Bronwen's POV

The meadow was very quiet.

Six hundred wolves were getting up off their knees, one by one, brushing the frost from their coats.

Not one of them was looking away from me.

"She has had ten years to hate you," Aneurin Rees said again, softly, from the rock.

He was on one knee with his head up, and he was smiling.

I walked across the grass until I stood in front of him.

"I'm angry with him," I said.

I said it loudly, because I wanted the northern packs to hear.

"I've been angry for two months, and I'll be angry on Tuesday. He signed my father's name with his silence, and he knows it, and he knelt in a field and said so. That's a different thing from hate, my lord. You wouldn't know. You've never been honest with anyone long enough to find out."

His smile slipped.

"Cadoc," I said. "The ledger."

He took it from under his coat.

He had carried it every day since the night in the vault.

He held it out to me, not to the Moot.

I opened it where the ribbon lay and read the line aloud.

"The fourteenth of December, ten years ago. Prince unwell, ring held by the Regent."

I turned the page.

"The second of January. Ring returned to the prince. The warrant that hanged my parents is dated the sixteenth, and it was sealed with that ring."

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