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“And if it really bothered you, you would have turned the phone off or gotten a new one,” Ronan said as he sat down next to lanced at him and couldn’t help the sht of the stubble covering his head It had been nearly three weeks since Tate and I had video chatted with Matty after he’d gotten his head shaved and I suspected that Ronan had continued to shave his own head for sorow back

“What are you doing here?” I asked A treh me as I quickly said, “Are Tate and Matty okay?”

“They’re fine Tate made it home with no probleo ANC stands for-”

“Absolute neutrophil count,” I interrupted “His white blood cell count had to get back to normal after the chemo killed all of them That’s why he had to stay in the I after the chemo was finished He was too susceptible to infections”

Ronan didn’t respond so I glanced over at hi me with a mix of curiosity and pity and I turned back to focus on the horizon There was no reason to explain that from theI could about his condition Because Ronan would want to knohy

And I didn’t have an answer for that

Well, that wasn’t quite true I hadn’t had an answer five weeks ago when I’d started researching the disease, but I had one now

“He was released yesterday,” Ronan said

I nodded in understanding Matty would only be out of the hospital for a week or so and then the whole process would start all over again More cheht of all he and Tate would have to endure over the next six months And a healthy outcome wasn’t even a certainty

“Why are you here, Ronan?” I asked tiredly

“Why are you?”

When I glanced at hi to Daisy She found information that proves Ricardo Davos is in Laredo”

It shouldn’t have surprisedDaisy had told me “Then you know that she didn’t find any proof of Buck or Denny being part of Davos’s crew,” I said

“Which is why I’ve spent the past three weeksyour GPS so I would knohen to send someone down there to back you up”