MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR
Grey stubble, and a scar cutting up through his left eyebrow, and when he pulls his glove off with his teeth, I see the ring finger is short at the top joint.
Nell described him in the dark of a cellar eleven years later, and she got him right down to the hand.
“Ronan,” he says.
“Don’t.”
“Lad, listen to me.”
“Don’t call me that either.”
The Ravencross men come round the yard in a loose ring, and Corrin doesn’t even look at them. He looks at Ronan, and then, deliberately, past him, at me.
“That’s her, then,” he says.