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"And I asked Murphy about your friend Emily’s boyfriend"

"Axel? What did Murphy say?"

"He doesn’t appear to be taking it as seriously as you do Seems to put more faith in his boys"

"Declan and Jack"

"Aye" He frowned and took a drink froe "Why are you so certain that Lorenzo had a local connection? Murphy seeht not have been, but I’m surprised Jack hasn’t looked into it ether on the dealer thing We both thought Lorenzo had to be the one funneling the new drugs into Dublin, because they died off quickly once he was gone It was only weeks and the dealers were scraone, the supplies had dried up Lorenzo had to be the connection"

"Then ould a local be necessary?"

"The drops they wereto your Around for years, not in Dublin And it was too smooth to be sos first started showing up No change in es out; they just had stronger stuff"

"So you think Lorenzoand that’s who helped him abduct Ioan Maybe it was the Irish boy he’d turned?"

She shook her head "No one knew him in the scene I asked around If he’d been the one, someone would have told me or Jack, especially after he was dead No, it was so drugs?"

"Why would they stop? They still have to make money They still have to supply their dealers They just have to be more desperate now since their supplies have dried up"

Carwyn paused for aFinally, he said, "Axel is the one as selling Eid"

She blinked "What? Axel?"

"Are you surprised?"

She thought Was she? "A little But I suppose it ured he was shady in sos surpriseon a smaller level from someone--"

"Why are you so sure he’s not the connection?"

"I just…" She sipped her drink "He’s not sh, Carwyn I s, or even to deal But to organize a network like as in Dublin when I first got there? There were so few arrests by the human police It was so carefully structured to keep the lower level--even the upper level--dealers in the dark So it Someone far smarter than Axel, anyway"

He nodded and leaned back "Fair enough You’ll keep looking when you get back If there are more people ere involved in Ioan’s death, I want to knoho And if Murphy is not following through, I know you will"

"Count on it"