Bred for Betrayal
I let it sit.
The second package came five days later.
Same placement, same plain exterior, same handwriting. This one was smaller, box-shaped, heavier than the first. Elias opened it the same way, methodical, unhurried.
Inside was my father's pocket watch.
I knew it immediately. I would have known it across a room. Silver, slightly scratched on the case from years of being carried in a pocket alongside keys, the small dent on the lower left edge from the time he'd dropped it on the kitchen tile when I was nine and we'd both held our breath until we confirmed it still worked. I'd looked for it after he died. It hadn't been among his possessions. I had assumed it was lost, or taken, or simply
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