로그인"I, Damien Kane, Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack, reject you, Aria Vance, as my mate and Luna." Three hundred wolves watched me go down on my knees. Not one of them heard what I said back. A Rejection only takes if both of us speak the words. He said his. I never said mine — and that silence is the only thing in this valley that has ever belonged to me. Six days later I found out I was carrying his twins. Three weeks after that I walked up a mountain in a storm and let four hundred wolves bury a woman who was not dead. Now it is three years on, and I am standing on the Blood Moon boundary stone with a son holding each hand. I did not come back for him. I came back so my boys have names in a book — so that if I go through a window one night, somebody has to answer for them. He can kneel in the mud in front of his whole Pack. He can hand me every scrap of power he owns. I have not forgiven him. I don't know that I ever will. But somebody has been trying to get to me since before he ever stood on that stone. And they know exactly where my children sleep.
더 보기Cole's letter came up with the post on March thirtieth while I was sewing a button back onto a coat that has another child's three years of wear in it, and I read it twice with the needle still in my hand.The houses taking part in the review want a wolf in the room who is not of this Council and holds no office in it. I am asking you. I cannot make you and I have nothing to make anybody with. If you say no I will go on asking until somebody says yes."He is asking you to stand," Mara said, from the other side of my own table, in my own room, where she had come down for tea because I had asked her to."He is asking me to be in a room while wolves say what they did, and afterward to write down what I saw.""That is what the word means. Your mother did that work. You have read what she wrote about it, and you know what it was and what it was not."I put the needle down."I turned this down in February.""You refused to take an office to answer the panel's objection in February." She sti
"The second week of March went past and I did not send for it," I said, "and you are going to hear why before you are kind about it. I had no carriage money that week, and I was not going to book a cart I could not pay for and find out in front of a carrier's boy that I am the woman who cannot pay."The post office in the town has a grille and a woman behind it who listens badly, and I stood at it on March twenty-fourth with my coat still done up."Right," said Dani. "That is the first thing you have said in three years that I did not have to translate. Now be quiet. I have been busy."The carrier who would have taken it in the second week is not coming near here until May. She had asked him without being told to, and asked two other yards besides, and one of those is running a part load up to the town at the end of the month with room on it. A part load is cheaper than a piece on its own. She read the figure out twice and I wrote it on the back of my hand."Say yes and I will hold it
I got to the statement room at half past five on the twenty-third of March and moved the table.It is a heavy table and I did it by myself, one end at a time, walking it back against the wall under the window that does not open, and when I had finished there were two chairs in the middle of an empty floor facing each other with nothing between them at all.That room is built for a table between two wolves. That is what it is for and I have used it for exactly that, and tonight was not going to be that, and I was not going to explain it to him afterward while the thing sat there between our hands.He came in at six and stopped when he saw the floor."You moved the table.""I booked the room in my own name, the way any adult of this Pack can book it, and there is nothing in here tonight but the two of us and a flask I brought because there is no kettle." I sat down in one of the chairs. "Sit in the other one. I have had this hour for two days and I have already spent four minutes of it
Damien's POVThe crew head had the week's list in his hand on February twenty-seventh and did not hand it over."Theo wants to say it in front of you first," he said, "and I want to hear him say it, because I am the one who has to live with it."So Theo said it in the yard with nine wolves listening, which is how he does anything he means."The offer I made you stood from the fifteenth and I held it back until there was thaw work worth putting a wolf on. That is this morning. Ordinary wages, ordinary hours, paid in the same line as every other wolf on that crew. You report to him." He put his thumb at the crew head. "Every job written and initialled, the way the singles have been. Same standard as the rest, no softer and no harder. If a wolf brings you a question that belongs to me and you answer it, this ends that afternoon, and I will not discuss it with you or with anybody else.""Understood.""It is not a post.""I know what it is.""Then take the list off him, Kane, and stop stan






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