All Chapters of He Threw Me Away Once, This Time I Choose the Lycan prince: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

FREYA'S POVThe torch beam stayed on my father who was still on his knees on the shelf with his hands hanging and the rain going over the back of his neck. He didn't lift his head."Ellis," my mother said."I heard her.""Then say something."He got a hand on the stone and pushed himself up and sat back on his heels, and the light was in his face and he looked old.He still didn’t speak."You told me you were at the village!" Her voice was slightly raised."I was at the village. I came up after.""Without me."He wiped his mouth with the flat of his hand. "Your mother had rung and said there was something about the child and to come up alone, and not to bring you because you'd fuss."My mother's breath went out of her."And you didn't tell me.""Nothing came of it. The child was fine." He said it almost gently. "What was there to tell you?""You stood at a river twenty-four hours before she went in it and you didn't think to mention it to me.""I thought it was your mother being your

FREYA'S POV"A second one what?" Rusk shouted."Body. There's two bodies here."My mother was on the grass beside me on her hands and knees with her hair down over her face. She lifted her head."Two," she said.My father's hand came up out of the trench and Rusk got it and hauled and my father came over the lip on his chest and lay there and the pump came back on and the water stopped climbing."Second one," Marsh said. "You're sure?""I've had my hands on it." My father rolled onto his side and coughed. "It's small. It's a box, or it's—" He coughed again. "It's not a coffin like the other. It's under the water at the far end and it's not the shape of a coffin.""Another chamber?""Same chamber."Marsh came and knelt at the lip with the torch and Rusk came and knelt beside him and the two of them looked down."Well," Marsh said, after a while."Well what?""It's a second cist. Small. Slate, by the look, with a lid on it." Marsh sat back. "That's not a coffin. That's a stone box. Someb

FREYA'S POVThe light swung. It was a lamp on a stick, held low, and it came up the road at a walking pace and stopped where the water crossed it."One man with a hand lamp," Kade said. "And he's stopped at the flood.""He's stopped because he can't get through.""He's stopped because he's looking at it."Rusk came up the stairs behind us three at a time and pushed in at the window."Torch off," he said. "Lamp down."We put it down to a thread and stood either side of the glass.The light on the road did not move for a long while. Then it came on again, off the road, along the verge, and it began to work its way up the flooded stretch in short stages with a stop between each one."He's coming through the water," Rusk said. "He knows where the shallow is.""Or he's testing it with the stick.""Or that.""How many?""One.""Then we'll have him in the hall and not on the stairs." My father went past us and down. "Rusk, get behind the door. Kade, you're at my shoulder. Freya—""Up here."

FREYA'S POVI had never met my grandmother on my father’s side.That was the thing I kept coming back to, standing in the doorway of that warm room with the fire going and the old woman in the chair. I had never met her. She had sold the house and shut the door and never come back to it, and my mother had said you didn't ask her things, and Aggie had said she was a woman you didn't cross, and I had built her in my head out of other people's fear.She was smaller than I had built her. That was the first surprise. Small and old and folded up in a chair with a blanket over her knees, and her hands were thin and spotted and folded neat in her lap, and she looked at me like she had been waiting a long time and had known exactly when I would come."Come in," she said. "Shut the door. You're letting the cold in."Dr. Ewan went in first. My father went after her. Kade stayed in the doorway and I stayed with him."All the way in," the old woman said. "I'm not going to bite. I haven't got the t

FREYA’S POV"I took her out of the chamber on Tuesday night," Corin said, his eyes moving over every one of us like he was waiting to see if anyone would protest. "I took her out and I put her in the chapel and I said a prayer over her and then I put her in the ground in the churchyard with the right date on the stone and the right name and the right words." He looked at me. "She's been waiting eleven years for a proper grave and she's got one now.""You broke into a sealed chamber," Dr. Ewan said."I opened a sealed chamber." Corin Vance's mouth pulled. "I didn't break anything. I've been waiting eleven years to open that chamber and I did it the first night I could.""And the van?""The van was an accident." He said it without apology. "I heard the pump stop and I knew somebody was coming down the hill and I took the van because it was there and I put it in the water because I had to get off the hill and I went up the far side on foot. I didn't hurt the boy. I put my hand on his che