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Asking him to take her out to dinner, to his horaduation

Mick always said no

She was soed in this house, in this space Outside these four walls she hadn’t existed, not for Mick, and apparently not for Jaeger, either

Piper felt the tip of a red-hot knife punching holes in her heart She felt the burn and the piercing pain, and the remote fell to the floor She watched as tears splashed onto the black plastic, and she heard a buzzing in her ears She placed her shaking hands under her arer, cursed these two men she’d loved but couldn’t, wouldn’t, love her in return

“Hey, it’s me I’ve tried to call a couple of ti to voice mail Very excited about the provenance I won’t be able to talk for a while, but text me, okay?”

Jaeger closed his phone and frowned Piper had sounded excited and she’d asked hiht away, so as her phone off?

God, he hoped that everything was okay, that nothing had happened to her or Ty Jaeger pulled out his seat at the round table and sent his siblings a distracted smile as he sat down

Sage, sitting opposite hi?”

Jaeger picked up his tued “Piper found the provenance for the stones”

Linc sat up straighter, ier to hear more “Seriously? Where?”

“A relative has a diary, and Piper thinks there er pitched his voice low and kept his sentences brief, not wanting to give anything away

“More?” Beckett’s demanded “How many?”

“Three Piper wants us to go up to the Hamptons tomorrow to take a look”

Linc pointed a finger at him “You’d better let us know as soon as you do”

Jaeger nodded, still uneasy that he couldn’t reach Piper He looked around the richly decorated ballroo at hi table