Hunted by the Alpha novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Terms
He came to Duluth at eight, through the snow, in a truck he had driven himself.
I opened the apartment door in a gray T-shirt and nothing else I wanted him to notice yet.
He stood on the landing with a paper bag in one hand and a heavy iron ring in the other.
"Decaf," he said, holding up the bag. "Two pounds. The woman at the store asked if I was having a party."
"What's the ring?"
He put it in my palm.
It was cold and heavy, with six keys on it.
"The vault," he said. "The cold store. The grove gate, the healer's cottage and the two doors to the pack's accounts. I signed them over this afternoon. The council cannot open any of them without you."
I stared at him.
"That's the whole pack's medicine."
"It was always supposed to be in a healer's hands."
"You gave me your power."
"I gave you what Sherman stole." His voice was rough. "That's the first cost. You'll see the others."
I closed my fingers around the keys, and my eyes stung.
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