All Chapters of The Wolf She Silenced: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

We reached the lighthouse at the edge of dawn.It stood on a black rock above the sea with the light turning slow at the top and the waves breaking white below it, and the road up to it was full of wolves.They were not Council wolves. They wore no grey cloaks and no silver. They were pack wolves from the coast, dozens of them, standing along the road with their hands at their sides and their faces turned toward us.And at the front of them, on the steps of the lighthouse, stood a tall wolf with a weathered face and grey at his temples and a broad scar across one cheek."Luna of Kırkkaya," he said. "I am Erik. I am the Alpha of the southern coast and I have been waiting twenty years for a wolf to come down out of those mountains."I got down off my horse."Fearchar is an hour behind me," I said. "He has forty wolves and he is riding hard.""Then we have an hour." Erik looked at the pack behind me. "Bring your wolves inside the lighthouse wall. The gate will hold."We brought the horse

The light came back and Fearchar was gone.The highest chair was empty and the ring of Alphas was on its feet and the great lamp turned above us and threw its light out over the sea."He has gone through the back," Erik said. "The tower has a door on the cliff side. He will be on the rocks below.""Then go after him," I said.Erik sent six of his wolves out through the back of the tower. The ring of Alphas was standing in the light and Tomas of the northern islands had his hand on the back of his chair."Luna," he said. "You said the rejection. The Council heard it.""You heard it and the light went out before I could finish it." I looked at the ring. "The rejection is not finished until the Council has heard the whole of it and judged it. I have not finished.""Then finish it."Fearchar was gone and the highest chair was empty and the ring of Alphas was watching me.I stood in the middle of the ring with the founding book in my hand."I am Elif of Kırkkaya," I said. "And I reject the

Fearchar stood on the rock path with the sea wind in his silver hair and his hands open at his sides and he smiled."Your mother was a rogue," he said to Cemal. "A healer with a scar on her hand and no pack and no name. She came to my house when you were a baby and she stayed four years and then she ran." He looked at me. "I did not have her hunted because she was a rogue. I had her hunted because she took something from my house."Cemal did not move."What did she take?" he said."The page," Fearchar said. "The page from the founding book. She read it and she took it and she ran. And I have been looking for it for twenty years." He looked at me. "I do not have the page. The rogue who was my wife's healer took it and hid it and died on the coast road before I could find her. And the page has been lost ever since."The wind came up off the rocks and the spray came over the path."Then the page is not in your house," I said."The page is not in my house." Fearchar looked at me. "But I k

Fearchar stood in the middle of the ring with his silver hair and his seal and his forty wolves behind him, and the Council of Alphas looked at him."The Council has heard the Luna," he said. "And the Council has heard the rogue. And now the Council will hear me." He looked around the ring. "The Luna has accused me of a hundred years of crimes. She has brought a page and a seal and a vial and a rogue who was raised in my house. And she has not brought a single thing that would hold in a court of law."The ring murmured."The Council will hear the wolf who held the lamp," Fearchar said. "And the Council will hear the wolf who sold the border routes. And the Council will hear the wolf who speaks for the bond." He looked at Cemal. "I raised that wolf. I gave him a name and a bed and a place at my table. And he has been lying to this Council for an hour."Cemal did not move."I have not lied," he said."You have told the Council that I killed your mother." Fearchar looked at him. "Your mo

I did not go to the gate.I went to the lighthouse keeper's room at the top of the tower.Cemal came up the stairs behind me with a lamp in his hand and his black hair loose and his coat open."The gate," he said."The gate can wait an hour." I opened the door of the keeper's room. "The wolves at the gate are not going anywhere and the horses are saddled and the pack is on the wall. An hour will not change any of it."He set the lamp on the table and shut the door.The keeper's room was small and round and the great lamp turned above it and the light came down through the glass and moved on the walls. There was a narrow bed against the curve of the tower and a chair and a table and a window that looked out over the sea.I sat on the edge of the bed."One month," I said."One month." Cemal sat beside me. "And a false wolf at the gate and a warden taken and a page that was in a ledger and a Council that wants a mate of its choosing.""And a debt that has never been paid." I looked at th