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"Very Last I saw hio find him I want to sit down and hear e all know, see if we can connect so Ales echoed off the ceiling of the great hall

Zane hurried to catch up "Wait, Ty, you want to do that with her with us?"

"She’s a year old She won’t understand death and destruction for at least another year"

"If we ever decide to adopt, you’re a mute in any interviews"

"Understood"

They found Nick and Kelly outside, sitting on the patio with Emma and Marley Kelly had a stick in his hand, and he seelasses on even though the day was overcast, and he was sipping frolass that Zane doubted was tea E animatedly, but Zane couldn’t tell if either Nick or Kelly was listening, lanced up when she noticed Ty and Zane there, and her face transforht smile "My baby!" she cried, and she held her hands out for A to Ty’s shirt

"What did you bribe her with?" Emma asked hirin "What are you guys doing?"

"We were prega a sip of his drink Elasses and drank with hiht He

Nick lowered his sunglasses, squinting at Zane He looked like he was co on this island "Any new leads?"

"That’s e came out here, actually It’s tiure out e know" He pointed at Eave that a curt nod He pushed his sunglasses back up and hefted hied for hilasses Nick held on to the of war he solasses on her little round face

"What am I supposed to do with this?" he asked

"Do what it says, no one gets hurt," Ty said, putting her la to retrieve more chairs

"Ty, you know I don’t do ith kids!"

Kelly stood to take A to him just as she had to Ty Nick rolled his eyes and sat back doith her

They gathered more chairs and circled them on the patio It was pretty wide open, but Zane trusted it more than any of the rooes and peepholes in the walls They leaned close so their voices wouldn’t carry to anyone nearby

"What’d you two find on the videos?" Zane asked Emma and Marley

"Nada," Marley answered "That dude avoided the lens like a vampire In total, I found seven frames with him in them Frames That’s like less than half a second of video"

"And we didn’t find anyone that screa really suspicious Although, the dead girl was on her phone in alht it eird because there’s no service here"

"Nikki Webb," Nick provided "Shefor service to text her boyfriend Her roonal And several witnesses stated they saw Milton on his phone That’s prettyI know the two victims had in common"

"Hell," Kelly said as he propped his feet on Nick’s knees "I’ve seen every person here wander around looking for a signal at least once"

"Livi told o, took one of her classes That’s how they met," Ty told everyone

"How’d she earn ed "She was a party planner Livi didn’t have to choose between her better friends It’s chick logic"

Eirl was a party planner, I’ll eat lanced at Nick and thenexactly what Ty was thinking "Sounds like Nikki Webb was a plant"

Nick sat forward, shifting Amelia onto his shoulder She had fallen asleep on hi her head on his shoulder "Livi told me Milton was the reason she and your brother met He steered Deacon toward her class"

Ty brushed a hand over his chin "Livi’s a friendly girl It’d be easy to strike up a conversation at her class, make contact with her as a mark She’s the least sheltered member of the family, the easiest way into the coed "I’ you what I know What really bothersshot at," Kelly spat

"You guys got shot at?" Eht, in the woods," Ty answered "We were checking to make sure the boats really were taken out by the stored I had Fraser, the groundskeeper, do a sweep of the woods He didn’t find any trace of anyone being hit No casings, nothing"

"Come on," Kelly said in annoyance "We know those were silenced shots, and we all knoould have silencers on this island Those Snake Eaters are part of this"

"Kels, those Snake Eaters are ex–special forces," Nick said in exasperation It sounded like they’d had this conversation a few tiht, they would have hit us"

"They did hit you," Kelly snapped without looking back at Nick

Nick closed his eyes and rubbed his fingers over his nose

"There are way too many weapons on this island," E Not only were the Snake Eaters all heavily ar and stalking, lined with rifles Not to ht with theested

"That should go over well," Ty said "Worth a try, though"

"What good is that going to do?" Nick asked "Anyone intending to use their weapon isn’t going to give it up voluntarily And you don’t need a gun to kill so to do, play Mr Green and Colonel Mustard and round up all the candlesticks and lead pipes, too?"

Kelly set his stick down and glared at hie "You’re not getting runted He pushed hiet sorumbled to hiht," Ty said

"Shut up, Tyler"

Zane was flipping through the pictures Nick had taken as the rest of them spoke Ty leaned forward to look over his shoulder When they reached the photo of the broken atch Nick had fixated on, Zane zoo special about it, but it did look familiar somehow

Ty patted his shoulder "I had one like that"

Zane raised his head "You did," he said as the realization hit hi It had a tracker in it"

"You wore a tracker in your watch?" Eave it tohard "Asshole"

Zane nodded Why would someone first smash the watch, then come back and take it? Was it possible that Ernest Milton had been one of Burns’s misfit ops men? "We need to talk to Burns," he said

"What? Why?" Ty asked

Nick leaned forward "You think Milton was his?"