All Chapters of The New Moon Mate: Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

They put the eleven Alphas of the north in the pack house and they put their forty wolves in the barn and they put a guard on both doors and I went up to Maeve's cottage to see Elias.He was in the bed in the back room with his side wrapped and his ribs strapped and his face gray against the pillow.Maeve met me at the door.“The arrow is out,” she said. “It went in between two ribs and it did not touch the lung. He is going to be sore for a week and he is not going to change for a month.”“Can I see him?”“He is asleep.”“I will sit with him.”I sat with him all morning and he did not wake and I did not sleep. The mark on my shoulder was warm and steady and the rope between us was slack and I sat in the chair with my hand on the blanket and watched the snow come down outside the window.At noon June came in.“Alpha,” she said. “The eleven Alphas of the north have sent a message. They want to meet with you before the full moon and they want to meet in the circle.”“In the circle,” I s

The Corrigan boy stood at the top of the stair with a rifle in his hands and twenty wolves behind him and the whole of the round room was between him and us.“You are not going to Boise,” he said again. “You are not going anywhere.”I got to my feet.“Corrigan,” I said. “Put the rifle down.”“My name is not Corrigan,” he said. “My name is not the name of a wheat pack. The Alphas of the north are going to give me a name and a seat and a territory and it is not going to be a co-op and a fence line.”I stood in front of Elias.“Your mother is up there,” I said. “And your brother is up there. And the whole of the pack that fed you and raised you and put up with you for nineteen years is standing in that square.”The boy’s face did not change.“They are not my pack,” he said.And then a voice came down the stair from the round room behind him.“Yes, they are.”The boy turned.A wolf came up the stair behind him. She was small and she had gray hair and she was the keeper and she had come do

I went to the pack house at noon and sat down in the Alpha's office with the door shut and the whole of the territory waiting outside it.The archivist was on the road with forty wolves and the fourth stone and three days between him and the full moon.I had a choice. I could ride out and meet him on the road and take the stone before he got to the circle. Or I could wait and let him come and take it in the circle at the full moon and let the whole of it be decided in one night in front of the whole of the territory.I sat in the chair and looked at the map on the wall and I did not know which one was worse.At dusk I went up to the circle.Elias was on the flat stone with the blankets and the two stones and the whole of the Luna's line around him and he was awake and his eyes were his."Alpha," he said."Keeper," I said.He almost smiled."You have been in the office all day," he said."I have been in the office all day.""And?""And the archivist is on the road with forty wolves and

Silas came into the office at two o'clock in the afternoon with his folder under his arm and a paper in his hand and his face white.“Alpha,” he said. “I have been going through the Council’s file on this territory since the archivist came down the ridge road. I have been going through it page by page and I have found a thing that I should have found in Boise.”“Sit down,” I said.He sat down.“The deed to the mill land,” he said. “The one you signed. The one that has your name on the annex and the Council seal on it and the note that says the deed is void if the Luna is alive.”“What about it?”“It is not a Council deed,” Silas said. “It is a founders’ deed. It was drawn in 1891 by the first Silas and it has been in the vault since 1891 and it has been used by the Council for eighty-five years to hold the mill land.” He put the paper on the desk. “And there is a thing on the back of it that I did not see until this morning. There is a second annex on the back and the second annex is

I called the pack into the square at four o'clock and I did not call it a hearing and I did not call it a meeting.I stood on the steps of the pack house with Silas beside me and the whole of the Luna's line in front of me and the seventy-one wolves who did not have a claim to the land standing at the back of the square with their hands in their pockets and their faces set."Pack," I said. "There is a thing you have to hear and it is not a thing I am going to say. It is a thing the investigator is going to say and he is going to say it in front of the whole of you and then the whole of you is going to decide what to do with him."I stepped back.Silas came forward.He was in his gray suit and his black hair was combed and his face was pale and he had his folder under his arm and he put it down on the rail and opened it."My name is Silas," he said. "I have been an investigator for the Council of Alphas for nineteen years and I came to this territory in September to buy grain land and