edar shavings, and Nora went strai
teel cabinet where she kept her tinctures, behind a row of brown bottles, and she had not said one word about the mate bond o
" she
t need t
kles are s
my right hand and turned it to the light, and the moment her fingers touched mine the bond pulled
i
She simply reached out and took it again
l it," s
what you are
king you to do anything about it. I am telling you that Doran has a nose, and if he catches the
think I
." She looked up. Her grey eyes were steady. "Which is
helf of jars and the chart pinned beside
happened,
people get killed in this pack." She finished with my right hand and started on the l
bargain I c
r." She wrapped a strip of cloth around my knuc
ping. Then I said, "Tell
nds st
ch p
when I signed my name in the spring, and it was gone when I checked tonight." I nodded at the cabinet in the corner whe
and. She went to the cabinet and took out a card
id. "I copied it first, and the
iet. That was w
that
e were loose sheets in her narrow handwriting. "If Silas reads that page, he will ask Tomas what he was doing on the shore, and Tomas will say he was on patrol, and then Sil
ime of his patrol, the wolf who signed him out. At the bottom, in her hand, a note: sa
you been doing
the s
ch p
oran. I did not burn them to protect him. I burned them because the moment the auditor reads them, Doran will know who has been re
d pushed at the clinic window
edger for months, and you did
table. You sign his book. You go where he sends you. I have watched you
hem to land. I did not argue, beca
d instead. "Wh
h patrol unt
he pag
ne in this pack who knows the book better than I do. I am not telling you because I trust you. I am tell
re the jar had been, and her hair had come loose from behind her ear, light chestnu
said. "If you need one, tell me,
the same as
nds a forged page, he hangs the healer. If he finds an enforcer's signature on a page that
ok the folder and put it back in
shift starts in two hours, and Maggie
hand was on the frame
af
urn
k page so the auditor would find nothing missing. That means you knew something was mi
not
mell on that pa
and the strong line of her jaw and I thought about the ten ye
aid. "When Tomas comes ba
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