As soon as Eleanor and Ethan got home, there was a knock at the door.
Ethan was in the kitchen, halfway through cooking. They'd picked up a fresh fish and some vegetables on the way back—kind of their way of rewarding themselves for making it out of the mess in one piece.
Eleanor went to answer the door.
"Kane?"
Standing outside was Carl's beta, Kane.
He handed over a bank card. "Alpha told me to give you this. There's five hundred grand on it. The PIN is his birthday."
Eleanor stared at the card in Kane's hand, stunned.
If he'd brought this before she went to the hospital... maybe, just maybe, she would've taken it without caring how shameless it seemed, and even thanked them for it.
But now? What was she supposed to do with half a million? Blow it in a month? Go
