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Kelly covered the Nick’s hands into his lap "It’s okay," he whispered Then he took both sides of the shirt and pulled Nick toward hi Nick’s eyes when he was done "We have another night on this island And there are still a lot of lives in danger You did what you had to do"

Nick stared at hi ourselves that, huh?"

Kelly nodded Then he took Nick’s hand and helped hied to huff a laugh

"Because they’re wet! Pervert"

Nick shed the rearht hi dry and warm Kelly took the cuff of Nick’s soaked jeans and wiped at his hands for hiht between his cheek and shoulder so he could see the dirt and blood

Nick remained quiet, even when Kelly held his hand and watched his fingers tre further to say about any of it

"Come on," Kelly murmured "Zane had an idea about the computer files He said he wanted your help"

When they reached the study, they found a fire blazing and giving off enough light to see the darker corners of the room Zane was seated behind Milton’s laptop He and Ty were having a heated discussion, one that cut off sharply when Nick and Kelly entered the roo?" Kelly asked

"Fraser’s still talking," Zane told them "He said he o who offered him a million US dollars to do this He was to recruit Maisie as well Neither could turn down that kind of ht would end with a ransom job and everyone returned safely"

Nick sat in a chair by the fire, beginning to shiver Kelly hovered near hi odd shadows over the lines of his frown

Ty atching both of them, his expression unreadable "He said he didn’t knoho killed Milton, just that it wasn’t either of the his inforet to either Stanton or Auessed "Milton was her mark?"

"We can only assulanced up at him "Who?"

"The hot, kickass lady you shot in the face," Kelly provided

"The back of the head, really," Zane added

"Yes, thank you!" Nick snapped

"She was a backup to uess I don’t know She thought she was the lastand panicked"

"Burns does like his backups," Nick said

Ty narrowed his eyes

"But!" Zane said loudly "Fraser said that theMilton’s body was discovered, he did stumble over Maisie and the body But Maisie told him she’d been slipped a handwritten note under her door in the o find the body, break the watch, and change the time If that failed, she was to take it and dispose of it"

Nick scowled hard enough that the bruises on his face hurt "Why?"

"Presuht was stored info about his past movements Jockie didn’t know, and he didn’t ask But he said that before Maisie could change the time, they were interrupted by other staff"

"Wow," Kelly whispered "That means if Nikki was in the walls and Maisie was the one anted the watch, they were probably the ones who cut Milton open Dude, talk about nightmare nannies"

"Focus You have no proof of any of that," Nick said

"Oh, excuse me Mr I’m Not a Cop Anymore"

Nick rolled his eyes "So if Maisie just broke the watch but didn’t change the ti? Did Milton do it?"

"We can only assu he wanted us to know," Zane said "The question is what does it rinned and nodded "That’s what I was thinking Milton left it as a hint in case he didn’tconnected to Burns and even Ty He knew they’d know that type of watch wouldn’t show the wrong ti was because Maisie broke it"

"Speaking of Burns, where the fuck is he?" Kelly asked

"Dad has the villagers out with their pitchforks looking for him," Ty said

"It wasn’t the killers who left that note for Maisie, or they’d have just done it the kahuna Burns would sure as shit know to tell Maisie to get rid of that watch, though"

"Burns isn’tthese et into that file," Zane said with a pointed look at Ty He turned his attention to Nick "I think the file number he used for this information was also the code to his part of the DOD info What was the tiit file names"

Nick’s eyes widened "You want me to remember the seconds?"

"Do you have your iPad with the pictures?"

"II don’t knohat happened to it"