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Roark had a full head of hair and was clean-shaven He looked like a lot of retired military ihtened out I wondered if the bald guy with the goatee was the infa after Roark It sounded like I had a description of thehis dirty work for his safely hidden away

Once I was done at the scene I started blowing Reeve’s phone up and tried to fight down panic when there still wasn’t any answer I knew she was smart, but so far Roark had proven smarter than all of us She knew that all of her protection was tied up at the charter school with Roark’s carefully crafted distraction, and she wouldn’t have left the safety of the loft unless she felt like she absolutely didn’t have a choice I needed to figure out what “hoht now I called Otis, the uide ht direction

When he told me where she was off to, et to her She had been taking care of me since the moment she stepped foot back in the Point Noas time for me to return the favor

Chapter 13

Reeve

WHEN BOOKER TOOK OFF after a panicked call fro in for the rest of the day and doing nothing I was getting real sick and tired of doing nothing I had never had the opportunity to just sit around idle while someone else took care of me, and I didn’t care for it at all Especially since I woke up alone and bereft everyspace between us during waking hours We needed to figure out a way that I could be out in the open that see solo I needed to be soet closer to me This condo was like a fortress and there was no way he could get his hands on me if I was cloistered behind the impenetrable walls

I waswith my hair in the bathroom mirror because I was that bored when the cell phone Titus had givenOnly two people had the number, Titus and Booker, so I froze when neither one of those naht I kneould be on the other end, that a deadly and lyrical Irish lilt would hit my ears when I answered the call I was so surprised to hear a voice I hadn’t heard since my family hole that I actually eak in the knees and had to sit down before I fell over

My mom sounded so host I was shaking so badly that I was having a hard ti lost in the rushing of blood through my head

She said so by the house and letting her and my dad know there was new inforent had been so nice, so handsoht she should be the one to call me because it was information the entire family needed to know My mother hadn’t had that round Her words stabbed through lass She asked me to come home I hadn’t been home to see her or e secret keptthe situation so I had no choice

He wantedto my parents my part in what had happened after Rissa’s death was s I had told hiainst me He was pure evil and really tricky It didn’t escapeme away from the security of the condo while both Titus and Booker were away I wondered if he had yet to pick up on thean eye on round or if he just didn’t care

I promised my mom I would try andup I kneithout a doubt the phone would ring again I don’t kno Conner got the nued to always be a step ahead Instead I needed to focus on luring him closer