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By the time we returned to the Alpha house, Adrian stood on the back stairs, destroying any hope I had of delaying our conversation until after I’d spoken with Jamie. Maria gave me a small pat on the back, and I was left alone standing in front of him.
“Come inside,” Adrian demanded as he turned on his heal and strode back into the house.
I clenched my jaw to kill the groan that rose in response. Voicing my annoyance would only give him more ammunition to use against me.
Ahead of me he disappeared back into the room that he used for an office and tried to stop moving. I didn’t want to go into that office. I was worried about Ja—
The power of the Alpha shot through my pack bond, and I winced as it forced my feet forward one at a time, all the way in until I was standing in front of his desk.
“That’s better,” he said, looking up at me from his chair. Clearly whatever he wanted to talk about had him seething. He’d never been able to force me into anything like that before without some kind of intense emotion going on.
“You wanted to see me?”
“Am I to understand from your need to be rescued this morning, that the plan you concocted for the—what did you call them again—death walkers—Am I to understand that your plan failed?” He asked, steepling his fingers in front of him.
I swallowed. There were two things I could tell him. One, the truth. That I’d failed to catch the walkers but succeeded in making contact with the witches, or I could go with option two.
“Our plan worked. The monsters should be gone. If there are any stragglers a well-placed explosion will destroy them,” I said.
His eyebrows rose to his hairline. “Really? You killed them? The two of you?”
“Our trap caught most of them but there were a few that Jamie and I had to take out together,” I said. “If we’re done here, I’d like to go make sure he’s okay.”
Adrian narrowed his eyes. “We’re not done here. Not by a long shot. Sit down.”
I pressed my lips into a thin line and dropped into one of the chairs opposite him before he could use the pack bond against me again.
“What can I do for you then,” I asked.
“Tell me where you found the information about the witches,” he said.
I arched an eyebrow at him. “In Annie’s things.”
“What things? Your mother went through everything before you returned to town and there was nothing there about any witches,” he said, leaning forward on his desk.
“I don’t know. I found it on one of her shelves. I guess Ronnie missed it when she shredded everything,” I said.
“Your mother is—”
“We both know she is not my mother,” I said through my teeth. “So please stop calling her that.”
His eyes flashed with surprise. “You know?”
“She blurted it out at the reading of the will, and then Gregor confirmed it,” I said. There was no way I’d be telling him about my father’s letter. He’d take it from me in a heartbeat.
“Ah yes, that reminds me. We need to discuss what Annie left you.” He opened a drawer next to him and pulled out a binder. “Your shares in The Neon. I’m sure Gregor gave you the monetary value of them. What was it?”
“I didn’t look at the paperwork,” I said. “Not yet anyway.”
“Alright, then I will give you what I know Ronnie’s half of the business is valued at plus another ten thousand,” he said, plucking a pen from the cup on the corner of the desk.
“For what?” I asked, arching an eyebrow at him.
“You’re going to sell me your shares,” he said, his tone matter of fact.
“No.”
