The Chase by Alainna MacPherson

Author:Alainna MacPherson [MacPherson, Alainna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Gearden

I knew it had to be isolating for Maeleigh to have to rely on me telling her what they both were saying. I tried to catch everything, but I knew my thoughts were my own interpretation. I followed her around the room as she took position with the best view of both Dad and Jerry.

“What’s this about, Jerry?” Dad asked. He sat perched on the small couch while Jerry sat in the cushioned chair opposite of him. I was curious as well. Jerry stayed to his diner with his family, away from pack life, just the way he wanted it. Though it was nearly a month ago that Danny and I paid him a visit to feel him out after the dead rabbit incident at McIntire, it had been months before then that I’d seen him. He was weary of anything to do with pack. One might think he was paranoid, but Dad had told me he had a right to be. His old pack had done him wrong in the worst of ways. I just wish Dad would tell me what that was. No one ever spoke of it.

Jerry licked his lips and rubbed his hands on his pants. Something was definitely up. “I uh…had a visitor— or, well, visitors, rather— at the diner today.”

Dad just waited him out.

“Vic,” he said finally. And the bomb was felt around the room. Well, save for Maeleigh, that is. “AJ, too, of course. They had a kid with them. I’ve seen him before, but I don’t know his name.”

Dad sat forward, anxious but patiently waiting for Jerry to get it all out.

“From your pack,” Jerry told him.

“Derrek,” Bri guessed.

When Jerry lifted a questioning brow to Dad, he answered, “He was exiled a few weeks ago.”

Jerry nodded. “That would explain why he was with them, then.”

“Why were they there?”

He jumped up to pace around and Maeleigh eagerly watched his face, trying not to miss anything he might say while he was on the move.

“They met another man there. A hunter,” he said, still pacing.

I glanced at Bri, who was looking at me with round eyes and Dad stood up.

“A hunter?” He got in his way, making him stop. “Are you sure?”

“Yeah, yeah I’m sure,” Jer said and blew out a shaky breath.

“Do you know what they were meeting about?”

Jerry shook his head. “Not everything.”

Dad looked disappointed, putting a hand on his hip and the other to his chin, thinking.

“But I think they made some sort of agreement. They shook hands.” He looked at Dad and then me, gauging our reactions. I tried to keep it cool because that’s what Dad seems to want. He didn’t want to spook Jerry. Him being here was a first ever. He’d always kept to the neutral ground along the highway, the diner and his home. For him to be here meant that whatever happened today at the diner with Vic and this hunter guy had to have shook him up.

Dad stares at him for a moment, to the point it made Jerry glance around at the rest of us and switch his weight from foot to foot.

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