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Chapter 20: Why Would Anyone Want This?
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Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 45: We will make an oath
"A fever," said Garrett. "When the girl was twelve.""Her history?""That is the strange part, Majesty." Garrett hesitated. "I went through the village records myself. The parish book, the tax rolls, the church register. Maren Ellory arrived in Thornwick twenty-two years ago. She came alone, from the east, with a bundle on her back. She married Aldric within the year.""Twenty-two years ago," said Theron."Yes, Majesty. Two years before the girl was born.""And before that?""Nothing. No birth record. No family. No village of origin." Garrett's brow furrowed. "People remember her as a good woman. A strong one. But nobody knew where she came from. She never spoke of it."Silence."A woman with no past," said Calen slowly. "And a daughter whose soul was sealed before she could stand.""A Morvain survivor," Sebastian said. "In hiding. Raising the girl in a baker's cottage until the day she dies.""Possibly.""Or something else.""Possibly," said Theron. "I do not know. I will not guess u
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 44: You never told us
Nobody spoke. Nobody had spoken much since sundown.Garrett crossed the room, unbuttoned his coat, and drew out a bundle wrapped in three layers of oilcloth. He laid it on the black desk. Beside it, he set down a thin leather book, a folded sheet of paper, and a small worn pouch."The jar," he said hoarsely. "The ledger. A drawing of the sign on the lintel. And this." He touched the pouch. "I will explain."Theron looked at the bundle for a long moment.He had waited a hundred and twenty years for an answer. He had thought it would feel like a trumpet. Instead it felt like a cold hand laid flat against the back of his neck."Sit," he said. "Eat something first. Then tell us everything."***It took an hour.Garrett was a good soldier, and he told it like one. Plainly, in order, without ornament. The barred door and the burned sign. The old neighbor Mera and her three men with no scent and no prints. The hearthstone and the hidden ledger. The words on the last page, which he repeated f
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 43: WHAT THEY FOUND
Aldric lifted his head."A silver piece. Every winter." Garrett held his gaze. "Your daughter says you left the room when Edda came. She says you never told her why."The man stared at him. The color had drained from his face."Maren asked me," he said hoarsely."Your wife.""On the last night. She was so thin. I held her hand, and she looked at me and said, Promise me something, Aldric." His voice shook. "She said, Every first snow, Edda will come. Give her one silver piece. Do not ask what it is for. Do not stay in the room. And never tell Morgana."Garrett went very still."Never tell your daughter?" Garrett said slowly."Never tell Morgana." Aldric's eyes were wide and glazed, and they did not seem to be seeing the cottage at all. "She said it would keep her safe. She said it was the only thing that could. And I..." His face collapsed. "I said yes. I did not ask what from. I did not ask who. She was dying, and I wanted her to stop being afraid.""You paid every year?""Every one.
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 42: Is she alive?
It was a stone hearth, wide and low, built into the wall. A cast-iron pot hung over cold ashes. Beside it, one flagstone sat a half-inch higher than the others.Garrett crouched. He ran his gloved fingers around the edge.It lifted out as easily as a lid.In the hollow beneath lay a small bundle wrapped in oilcloth. He unwrapped it with great care. Inside were two things.The first was a book. A thin, battered ledger, bound in cracked brown leather, with the corners worn soft from years of handling.The second was a jar.It was made of brown clay, no larger than his palm. The lid was sealed with a thick plug of beeswax, and around the neck was knotted a length of green string.Garrett stared at it.Look for a clay jar sealed with wax and tied with green string.He did not touch it. He did not even breathe. He took a clean cloth from his pocket and wrapped the jar in three layers, and he laid it carefully inside his coat. It was so cold that it chilled him through the leather.Then he
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 41: Edda Marl was as strong as an ox
Garrett said nothing. There was nothing to say. He had been in the lane that morning when Corvus's men hauled a silent, white-faced girl out of her father's cottage, and he had stood in the shadows and kept his face blank, as he had been trained to do. It had not been his order. It had still been his shame."I would not trouble you," he said, "if I had any other way.""Hmph." She studied him for a long moment. Her eyes were small and black and sharp. "You are the big one. The one with the beard. The boy at the flour stall says you came asking about Maren.""Maren?""Maren Ellory. The girl's mother." She said it with a kind of impatient pride. "A good woman. Strong hands. A voice like honey. She taught half this village to bake before the fever took her."Garrett inclined his head. "Did you know her well?""I knew everyone well." Mera jerked her chin at the cottage across the lane. "And I knew Edda. Sixty years. We buried three husbands between us."Her voice cracked on the last word.
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 40: The wolf has come to ask questions
Her head came up."You...""It is a good price," he said dryly. "The flour is excellent."For one long moment, she only looked at him. He saw confusion in her eyes, and the faintest, most fragile flicker of something that might, in time, grow into trust. Then she bowed her head again, and slipped through the door, and was gone.He sat in the silence.The fire cracked. A log fell in on itself with a soft sigh of ash. Outside the window, the courtyard lay white and still, with the print of the cart wheels already filling with fresh snow.Theron stared at the empty chair for a long time.Then he reached for a sheet of paper, and a pen, and wrote four lines in a hard black hand.Garrett. Edda Marl's cottage. Search every shelf and every hearth. Look for a clay jar sealed with wax and tied with green string. Bring it to me and touch nothing else.He sealed it. He rang for the courier.And as the bell echoed down the corridor, he reached inside himself, the way he had every day for the past
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