Biblioteca
Buscar
Início / Paranormal / MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR / Chapter 76

Compartilhar

Chapter 76

Autor: Dumdum
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-18 06:18:09

Wren’s POV

“He is in a chair at Ravencross, and he is seventy-eight,” I said.

“Then he had better hurry.” Ise had her feet up on the tail of the cart now, out of the wet, which I took as the first thing she had done for herself in nine days. “The third book is nine hundred pages,s and it goes back to 'ninety-two, and the old hand is not the house hand with different letters. It is a different hand. It has short forms in it, and they are not written down anywhere because they were never meant to
Continue a ler este livro gratuitamente
Escaneie o código para baixar o App
Capítulo anterior Próximo capítulo
Capítulo bloqueado

Último capítulo

  • MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR   Chapter 85

    Wren’s POV“Ask her,” I said. “Not you, Ronan. Not eleven men in a hall. Me, in the kitchen, with the door shut, and Ise on the bench because Ise wrote those letters and has a right to it.”“Wren.”“She walked nine days on turnips to get to me, and she found Aled’s tally under the blotter and brought it to Rhys instead of to him.” I had my hand on the door. “So she gets a kitchen and two women and no benches, and if it goes badly you may have her afterwards.”She was at the table with the flour out. She looked up, and she knew, and I watched her decide not to run, which took about a second and a half.“You have seen the gate book,” she said.“Sit down, Talia.”“I would rather stand.”“So would I. Sit down anyway.”She sat down. She put both hands in the flour and left them there.“The eighth,” I said. “Half past six. Out the north gate on foot, back at a quarter past seven.”“I went to the byre and burned Del’s papers, same as most evenings.”“That takes nine minutes.”“It takes nine

  • MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR   Chapter 84

    Ronan’s POV“Then there is a second hand,” Rhys said.“There is a second hand, and it has been going out on my carts under my own string for four years,” I said.“Longer,” Sesse said. “Del has read the letters for six years and the second bundle was there when he started, and Corrin gave him the rule about the string, and Corrin has been in your tack room for thirty-nine days.”“Then get him in here.”They brought him in, and he stood where he had stood before, and he had had thirty-nine days, and he did not look better for them.“The second string,” I said.“I wondered when you would get to that.”“Corrin.”“I have been waiting thirty-nine days for somebody to ask me about the second bundle and nobody has, because every one of you has been chasing the register.” He sat down without being asked. “The second string is the office. The first bundle is the houses. That is the whole of it,t and I have known it for thirty years, and I have never known one thing more.”“There is no office,”

  • MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR   Chapter 83

    Wren’s POV“His name is Del,” Rhys said, “and he is fifteen, and I have had him in my yard for six years, and he read that letter to that keeper on Tuesday and about four hundred others before it.”“Where is he?”“In the kitchen with Talia and a plate, and he came when I asked him, and he has not stopped talking since I said the word, Cully.”He was small for fifteen,n and he had a good voice for reading, which I suppose is why they used him.“I am not in trouble,” he said.“That is not a question.”“No.” He put his fork down. “I know what I have been doing. I have known since I was about twelve. I want to say that first because everybody has been kind to me all evening and I would rather they were not.”“Then say it in order,” I said.“I get a letter at the gate on the ninth with the cart, in a bundle, and there are between four and eleven of them, and each one has a house on the front. I take them round on the cart with the grain, and I read each one out loud to the man at that hou

  • MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR   Chapter 82

    Ronan’s POV“You are not riding to Cully.”“I have ridden to Corrach and to the bridge, and I am going to ride nine miles to a door and nail a paper to it.”“You lost the whole of Wednesday.”“I know I lost the whole of Wednesday. It is in your book with the time against it.” She was already getting her coat. “And on Wednesday I sat in a chair in a hall and other people did things, and I would rather spend a day I am going to lose on a road than in a chair.”“That is not an argument.”“No,” she said. “It is a preference. I have got about four of those left, and I am going to use them.”So we went, because she was right and because I have stopped trying to win that particular one.Nine miles up the coast road with Ise between us on a quiet horse, and a bench man behind, and Rhys with four, and the tide going out on our left the whole way. Wren rode badly and did not complain and asked Ise questions for two hours about the second book, and Ise answered every one of them and asked her th

  • MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR   Chapter 81

    Wren’s POV“Twenty more,” Ise said. “She has got the number right.”“Say that again.”“Twenty-two houses left on the list, and eleven of them are entered houses with men in them, and eleven are kept houses with a board and a bolt and one keeper.” She had the third book open on the table and both hands flat on the page like a woman holding down a sail. “So there are twenty she can walk into on her own, and she has done one, and she has counted them, and she cannot have got that off my book because my book has been in a cart with me.”“Then how?”“She has been in four houses in eleven months.” Ise looked up. "Ardh, the store at Corrach, and two before that. That is the way they move a girl who will not settle. And every one of those houses has a board on every door with a name and an age on it, and she can read.“Nobody has ever thought about what it means that some of us can read the boards.”“Then she has been counting doors for eleven months.”“She has been counting doors and remembe

  • MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR   Chapter 80

    Wren’s POV“Where is it?” I said.“In the archive, in the third box, under the muster rolls.”“Get it.”“Wren.”“I am not going to sign it. I have never once been going to sign it.” I put my hand out. “Get it, because I want to look at the thing that has been sitting in a box in this house for a month with my name on it, and I want to look at it today, while I have got the week.”He got it. He put it on the table in front of me and stood back, which he has learned to do.It was two pages. Article nine, mate claim, Ronan Blackwood of Ravencross in respect of Wren of Thornhollow, filed the fifteenth, unsigned in the second space.And there was a ruled line at the foot of the first page for the consent of the party claimed, and it was empty, and I had a very strange minute looking at an empty ruled line on a piece of paper in my own hall.“Ronan. Why did you file it?”“Because on the fifteenth you were a stranger on the wrong side of the water with a conveyance on you and no standing any

Mais capítulos

Você também pode gostar

Explore e leia bons romances gratuitamente
Acesso gratuito a um vasto número de bons romances no app GoodNovel. Baixe os livros que você gosta e leia em qualquer lugar e a qualquer hora.
Leia livros gratuitamente no app
ESCANEIE O CÓDIGO PARA LER NO APP
DMCA.com Protection Status