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51: Going In Blind

KADE'S POVThere were three of us at that table and only one of us was eating.Ronan had his elbows in and his head down and worked through the eggs like a man doing a job. Freya stood against the counter with a piece of toast she wasn't biting and watched the two of us in turns, and her mother sat at the end with her coffee and her dressing gown tied at the waist and ran the whole thing."You're the bastard," she said to Ronan."Yes, ma'am.""Which one?""Moonrock, ma'am. As far as anyone's written down."She made a sound and stirred her coffee, and Ronan kept eating, and I sat with a fork in my hand and understood that he had answered that question more times than he could count and no longer heard it."Your mother's rung this house three times since Tuesday," she said, to me now."Yes, ma'am.""She wants the trip to go ahead." She paused for a second. "Do you know why?"I did. My mother had told me a specialist who says there's nothing wrong with the girl is worth six months of goo

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52: For Years

FREYA'S POVI got as far as the landing before I turned round and went back down.I couldn't be in a room. Not with her, not with the cases, not with the register page burned into the back of my eyes. My mother called my name from the top of the stairs and I said, "Ten minutes," and kept going, and the inn door shut behind me with the little brass scream of the bell.Cold hit me. The village was the colour of an old coin now.Ten minutes. Fine. I would walk to the green and back and be a normal person about it.Three weeks she's known about this and said nothing. She sat in my room this morning and talked about a drive down and a night in the village like it was all still to be arranged, and she'd already booked the inn. She'd already signed this register in her head.I stopped at the memorial and made myself read it, because reading is a thing you can do with your eyes when your head won't work.Forty-one names. Two columns. Three of them Everhart.Three.I read them twice. Boys from

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53: The Stone

FREYA'S POVThe inn's back room smelled of old wood, and my father had shaved and put on a tie and did not eat anything.He sat at the end of the table with his hands flat on either side of an empty plate and looked at me like a man checking a fence for gaps. He'd come in at half five and hugged me hard enough to hurt and then held me out at arm's length and said, "You look well.""You'll eat something," he said."I'll eat after.""Freya.""Dad. After."Kade came down a bit later with his jaw scraped raw and his collar straight. He stood by the door until my father told him to sit. My mother poured tea nobody drank. We were all dressed like a funeral and behaving like one.I kept my hands in my lap and my eyes on the table and tried to make the pieces fit.Nora. The grave. The wrong date. The woman on the bank with her shoes off and dry. Marissa's green stone. The ring with three bars and a crescent that had gone into a drawer sixteen years ago and never come out.And underneath all o

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54: Fortnight

FREYA'S POV"You'll come back in a fortnight and we'll do the rest," Dr. Ewan said, and my father said, "We'll do the rest at home."They came back in after her last words, which was still ringing in my head but I was trying to act normal. "She's carrying a stone that's eating her." Dr. Ewan put her cup down. "You can take her home and bring her back in a fortnight and she'll have fed it another fortnight, or you can let me pull the memory now while she's in the room and the stone's still hot and find out what she's holding."My father looked at me. "Do you want it?"I thought about the flat taste in my mouth and the four words on the stone and the woman with her hand out and not touching."Yes.""Then it's done," my mother said, before he could answer.He turned on her. "She's seventeen. Will it hurt her in any way?”"She was six," my mother said. "And she's been carrying it since and neither of us had the guts to open it, so sit down."Dr. Ewan got up and went to the door and opene

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55: The Second Time

FREYA'S POVDr. Ewan took her coat off the hook and put it on and picked up a walking stick from beside the door and did not offer me a hand."Come on. Coat."My legs held me but I wasn’t sure they would move. My mother got me upright and into the sleeves, and Dr. Ewan was already out in the yard with the stick going down ahead of her like a third leg."Doctor." My father filled the doorway. "She's had a shock.""Then she'll have it walking."He stood there a moment and then followed, because there was nothing else to do with her.Kade came off the chair in the corridor and fell in stride beside me. Dr. Ewan turned round at the gate and pointed the stick at him."You. You're a big lad. There's a box of ledgers by the door, bring it."Kade, who was a proud alpha to be did not think twice before doing as she said. He carried it the whole way down the lane with his jaw set and his collar up and did not ask why.The shop had its shutters half up and a woman behind the counter with her sle

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56: Ring Cuts

FREYA'S POV"Second time," Dr. Ewan said. She hadn't sat back down. "Say it plainly, Mrs. Ryle."Aggie's mouth worked. Her niece came in from the back with a cup and put it on the arm of the chair and Aggie didn't touch it."Tuesday," she said. "Two days before.""Before what?""The child was in the water Tuesday." Aggie looked at me. "Sitting on the bank at the bottom of the garden, soaked through to the shoulders, and not a sound out of her. Nora found her. Came in with her over her shoulder and both of them shaking and Nora white as a sheet and she says to me, she was in the water, Aggie, and I only went up for the linen."My mother's fingers had gone into my sleeve."Alone?" Dr. Ewan said."Alone on the bank. Nobody saw her go in and nobody saw her come out.""Was she crying?""She wasn't anything. Sat by the range with a blanket and stared at the fire like a doll."Dr. Ewan turned to me. "Do you remember Tuesday?"I reached for it. Cold, wet shoulders, the smell of the range. Not

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57: His Mother

FREYA'S POVNobody said anything for a while.Kade's hand was still flat on the table and he was looking at it as though the fingers had let him down."A ring's a ring," he said, trying to sound casual but there was a strain in his voice. "Half the men in the territory have something like it.""Half the men," Dr. Ewan pressed, "weren't on that step.""My father was a big man in a grey coat. So is every Alpha's brother and every man who ever did business with one.""How many Redwood men were living eleven years ago?"Kade opened his mouth and shut it."How many?" she said."Two." He said flatly. "My father and my uncle.""Where's your uncle?""Canada. He's been out of the territory since before I was born.""Then it's your father." Dr. Ewan picked up her stick. "Or a man wearing your father's ring.""He never took it off." Kade said it fast, and then again, slower, as if he were testing it. "He never took it off. Not to wash, not to sleep. My mother used to go on at him about the soap

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58: Did You Know?

FREYA'S POVThe inn was shut against the wind and the bell over the door went off when we pushed in and the innkeeper came out of the back with a cloth in her hand."There's a call for you," she said to me. "I’ve been holding it for ten minutes. Wouldn't leave a name.""Who is it?""She wouldn't say."I looked at the phone on the desk with its little red light going."Freya," my father said. "Leave it. You're frozen."The light went on blinking.I picked it up."Hello?"Wind, and then a voice, and the voice had a smile in it."Freya. You've had a busy morning."I knew it before she said the name. My mouth had gone dry and my hand had gone tight on the receiver and I had one clear thought, and the thought was that nobody in this village knew where we were standing, and nobody in this house had told her."Marissa," I said."Mm." She tilted her head to the side. "Is my son with you?"The bell over the door was still swinging. Kade was three feet away with his coat half off and his phone

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59: In Eight Years

FREYA'S POVWe got our coats. My mother came out of the back with her face set and my father behind her, and the four of us went out into the yard with Dr. Ewan last and the innkeeper holding the door.The car came round the bend at the bottom of the green and didn't slow for it, and the back end stepped out and the driver caught it, and it came up the last stretch and stopped square across the yard mouth with the engine running and the lights on full.Two men got out.The innkeeper wiped her hands on her apron. "I don't know them."The one from the driver's side was young and thick through the neck and in a work coat. The other was older in a grey overcoat, and he came round the bonnet with his hat in his hand and stood where the lights were behind him and looked at each of us in turn."Alpha Everhart."My father stepped forward. "You've got the advantage.""Rusk. Walter Rusk." He had a flat way of talking. "I keep the house up the hill.""Which house?""The one you'll have been at t

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60: Black Seal

FREYA'S POV"You said Sunday," Kade looked taken aback, more than the rest of us even.The sight of his mother was perplexing."I said Sunday because Sunday is a sensible day for it." Marissa came down three steps and stopped. "Then the rain started and I thought about a shut room and a river and changed my mind. There's a lamp in the kitchen and another in the back room, and the water's in the outbuilding.""You lit the lamps.""I lit the lamps. There's no power up here, Kade, there hasn't been in years.""With what key?""With the key I was given."My father came up the last step past me and stood in the hall with the water round his ankles and did not take his hat off."Mrs. Redwood.""Ellis." Marissa's chin came up. "You're angry. That's fair. Be angry at me after.""You were given a key by my mother.""Eight years ago, with the house and the ring and the instruction to keep my mouth shut." She came down to the bottom of the stairs and held the lamp out to my father. "Take it. You

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