Chapter 101: The Girl Who Won't Forget

The shingle went cold and the whole of the pack turned round and looked at the cliff.Callum was standing at the top of the shore with his good coat and his grey hair and the chain of office round his neck and two of his guards behind him.He came down the shingle slowly with his hands at his sides and his face doing nothing at all."The child is mistaken," he said.Clara stood up."The child has not been mistaken once since the spring," she said. "She saw a wolf in the schoolyard and drew a picture of it and the picture had a mark on its shoulder and the mark was the mark of the curse. She saw a man with a chain of keys and she told us and the man with the chain of keys was the Gamma. She dreamed of a wolf in a cage on a Council ship and the wolf in the cage was the Alpha's wolf. She has been right every time and she is right now."Callum stopped three paces off."I have been the speaker of the Council for eleven years," he said. "I have been on this cliff for two days. I have read t

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Chapter 102: The Priest's Last Mass

They put Callum in the byre with a chain on the door and two men on it and the whole of the pack went up to the green because there was a ship at the harbour mouth and a thing on the deck of it and no time left to stand on a shingle arguing about a bottle.The priest asked to be taken to the chapel.Clara said no and Callum said no and the whole of the Council said no, and the priest said, "I have been the priest of this village for forty years and I have not said a mass since the schoolhouse burned. Let me say one. Let me say it in the chapel with the door open and the whole of the pack outside it and then I will go wherever the Council sends me."Clara looked at him for a long moment."Two men on the door," she said. "And the chain stays on your wrist."The priest went up to the chapel with two men and the chain on his wrist and the whole of the pack came up the hill behind him and stood in the yard and on the green and in the road, and the chapel door was open and the candles were

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All Chapters of The Curse of the Beta: Chapter 101 - Chapter 102

Chapter 101: The Girl Who Won't Forget

Chapter 102: The Priest's Last Mass