BOUND TO THE DYING HEIR のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 24

OdessaBy the time we reached the Sorrel estate, the whole territory knew.I don't know who told them. Nobody had to. When the roof came off that farmhouse, every wolf with a drop of moon in their blood felt the sky tear open, and by dusk they were walking out of their houses and up the hill road in silence. Packs that hadn't shared a fire in a generation stood shoulder to shoulder on the great lawn. Northern wolves beside Sorrels. Kades beside Hales. Kessa's thirty-one, bandaged and hollow-eyed, standing in a tight knot near the front, and Ines the midwife with her hand on a little girl's shoulder.The girl waved at me. Missing tooth and all.I almost broke right there."Breathe," Evan murmured beside me."I am.""You're not. Do it again."I did. Behind us, the dark that had followed us down the mountain sat low on the northern horizon, patient as a tide.My parents were waiting at the top of the steps. Mom had pulled her hair back and put on a plain grey dress, and she looked like s

Chapter 24: The TwinEvanI read it four times before I let myself breathe.The door has a twin."Silas is dead," my father said. "I felt his thread go out of the world with my own eyes.""Then somebody wants us to think he isn't." I turned the black paper over. The wax seal was broken clean down the middle, the moon cut in half like it had been split with a blade. "Or somebody has been practicing his handwriting.""Who would know about the child?" Josh had come up behind me with Mia, both of them half asleep and fully armed. "You only found out four hours ago. Who else was on that balcony?"Nobody.That was the answer, and it made the back of my neck go cold.Pup. The old wolf was awake, and he wasn't amused. Take that paper to the one who ran from her father. Now.Aurelia didn't need to read it. She took one look at the broken seal and sat down on the kitchen floor like her legs had been cut off."He kept a ledger," she said. "Forty years of it. I used to read it while he slept, bec