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